{"id":16270,"date":"2021-01-07T14:56:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T14:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/?p=16270"},"modified":"2021-01-07T17:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T17:36:46","slug":"congrats_biden_admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/congrats_biden_admin\/","title":{"rendered":"NCL congratulates President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>For immediate release: January 7, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Media contact: National Consumers League \u2013 Carol McKay, <a href=\"mailto:carolm@nclnet.org\">carolm@nclnet.org<\/a>, <a href=\"tel: +14129453242\">(412) 945-3242<\/a>\u00a0or Taun Sterling, <a href=\"mailto:tauns@nclnet.org\">tauns@nclnet.org<\/a>, <a href=\"tel: +12022072832\">(202)\u00a0207-2832<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC\u2013On behalf of the Board of Directors and staff of the National Consumers League, America\u2019s pioneering consumer organization founded in 1899, we wish to extend warm congratulations to our next President of the United States, Joe Biden and incoming Vice President Kamala Harris. As consumer and worker advocates, we look forward to building a strong relationship with the Biden-Harris Administration to advance the issues of democracy, which go hand-in-hand with consumer and worker protections. Among the top priorities on NCL\u2019s agenda: enacting a $15 federal minimum wage and comprehensive privacy and data security laws; strengthening consumer protections regulations throughout the federal agencies; fighting fraud by enhancing consumer protections in financial transactions; restoring consumer protections to the flying public and American travelers; combatting predatory financial practices; and reducing the barriers facing all consumers seeking to gain access to the civil justice system.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations once again to President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on their election to the two highest offices in the land.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the National Consumers League (NCL)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The National Consumers League, founded in 1899, is America\u2019s pioneer consumer organization. Our mission is to protect and promote social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the United States and abroad. For more information, visit www.nclnet.org.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCL looks forward to building a strong relationship with the Biden-Harris Administration to advance the issues of democracy, which go hand-in-hand with consumer and worker protections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false},"categories":[285,14,315],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16270"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16273,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16270\/revisions\/16273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nclnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}