{"id":2513,"date":"2016-03-16T18:50:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T17:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ounews.co\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2016-03-16T18:50:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T17:50:07","slug":"budget-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/arts-social-sciences\/society-politics\/budget-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"OU academics review 2016 budget statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Osborne today delivered his <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/budget-2016-experts-respond-56305\">eighth budget as Chancellor.<\/a>\u00a0We spoke to two Open University academics with different areas of expertise to get their take on the headlines&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Lecturer in finance<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/jl4982\">Jonquil Lowe<\/a>\u00a0on how the budget might impact personal finances&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.open.ac.uk\/embed\/d47c00d3b4\" width=\"480\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Lecturer in economics<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/people\/as23764\">Alan Shipman<\/a>\u00a0gives an overall summary of today&#8217;s budget statement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/HTRuvF9YWxw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Osborne today delivered his eighth budget as Chancellor.\u00a0We spoke to two Open University academics with different areas of expertise to get their take on the headlines&#8230; Lecturer in finance Jonquil Lowe\u00a0on how the budget might impact personal finances&#8230; Lecturer in economics Alan Shipman\u00a0gives an overall summary of today&#8217;s budget statement&#8230; https:\/\/youtu.be\/HTRuvF9YWxw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[327,754,993,1179,1689,1692],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-politics","tag-budget","tag-economics","tag-government","tag-isa","tag-pensions","tag-personal-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}