{"id":4242,"date":"2014-07-22T14:14:15","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T14:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/?p=4242"},"modified":"2020-02-28T15:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T15:19:00","slug":"great-economic-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2014\/07\/22\/great-economic-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Economic Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4267\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4267\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4267\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/07\/UDL-Great-Economic-Debate.jpg\" alt=\"UDL Debate\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[L to R]: Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, Minnesota Department of Commerce Commissioner Michael Rothman, and Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>The Minnesota Urban Debate League (MNUDL)<\/strong>\u2014a program of Â鶹Çø College\u2014in May hosted its second Mayor\u2019s Challenge. <strong>Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, Minnesota Department of Commerce Commissioner Michael Rothman<\/strong>, and <strong>Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges<\/strong> served as judges for a student debate resolving that the North American Free Trade Agreement has been beneficial for the economy of Mexico and the United States, specifically Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This spring, MNUDL also hosted its first Spanish Debate Invitational, a Spanish tournament for Twin Cities middle and high school students, as a way to make forensics available to more students and to help extend the reach of the positive work of MNUDL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota Urban Debate League (MNUDL)\u2014a program of Â鶹Çø College\u2014in May hosted its second Mayor\u2019s Challenge. Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman, Minnesota Department of Commerce Commissioner Michael Rothman, and Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges served as judges for a student debate resolving that the North American Free Trade Agreement has been beneficial for the economy of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-4242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-the-quad","tag-summer-2014"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4242"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10182,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4242\/revisions\/10182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}