{"id":6359,"date":"1984-02-17T16:32:24","date_gmt":"1984-02-17T16:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=6359"},"modified":"2014-09-30T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T16:55:13","slug":"citys-woes-reflect-budget-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1984\/02\/17\/citys-woes-reflect-budget-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"City&#8217;s Woes Reflect Budget Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1984, a reporter\u00a0from the\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/em>drew a sharp and sobering portrait of Peoria as it slogged through the recession that hit America near the end of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s first term as President.<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment rates and interest rates were high; area farmers were struggling with a recent drought and a poor export market; and Peoria&#8217;s manufacturing sector was limping forward.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Journal<\/em>\u00a0reporter focused, notably, on the travails of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/view-archive-by-place\/the-carver-center\/\">Carver Center<\/a>\u2014a once-thriving community institution that was facing increasing demand for its health care services even as its United Way funding was being cut.<\/p>\n<p>In part because the House Majority Leader was none other than Peoria&#8217;s GOP Congressman Robert Michel, the story of Peoria&#8217;s ambivalent relationship to Reagan&#8217;s policies opened onto a larger national story: how the GOP stopped talking about &#8220;dependency&#8221; on the federal government when more and more citizens needed federal assistance to make it through tough times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1984, a reporter\u00a0from the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0drew a sharp and sobering portrait of Peoria as it slogged through the recession that hit America near the end of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s first term as President. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[403,15,196,8,9,5,401,10],"tags":[421,410],"class_list":["post-6359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-ball-of-confusion","category-1970s","category-mecca-for-the-black-community","category-carver-center","category-peoria-an-introduction","category-places","category-portraits-of-the-city","category-chronological","tag-carver-center","tag-robert-michel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6365,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6359\/revisions\/6365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}