{"id":11239,"date":"2025-07-13T02:23:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T02:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/unlock-americas-hidden-entrepreneurs-congress-must-pass-the-new-start-act-now\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T02:23:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T02:23:31","slug":"unlock-americas-hidden-entrepreneurs-congress-must-pass-the-new-start-act-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/unlock-americas-hidden-entrepreneurs-congress-must-pass-the-new-start-act-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlock America&#8217;s hidden entrepreneurs: Congress must pass the New Start Act now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Start Act, introduced by Sens. Ed Markey and Cory Booker, proposes a five-year pilot program to award grants to organizations that train currently and formerly incarcerated individuals in entrepreneurship, aiming to reduce recidivism and grow the economy&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/criminal-justice\/5397334-tech-training-inmates-new-start-act\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Start Act, introduced by Sens. Ed Markey and Cory Booker, proposes a five-year pilot program to award grants to organizations that train currently and formerly incarcerated individuals in entrepreneurship, aiming to reduce recidivism and grow the economy&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}