{"id":113,"date":"2026-03-17T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/?p=113"},"modified":"2026-08-26T10:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:43:23","slug":"opinion-nyc-must-invest-in-consumer-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/2026\/03\/17\/opinion-nyc-must-invest-in-consumer-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: NYC must invest in consumer protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Daily News \u2014 New Yorkers, like the rest of the country, are struggling under an affordability crisis. Rent, utilities, food, prescriptions, and other necessities are increasingly out of reach. That\u2019s why it\u2019s especially important that workers receive the pay they have earned, and when companies price gouge or charge exorbitant junk fees, they are held accountable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/03\/17\/nyc-must-invest-in-consumer-protection\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Daily News \u2014 New Yorkers, like the rest of the country, are struggling under an affordability crisis. Rent, utilities, food, prescriptions, and other necessities are increasingly out of reach. That\u2019s why it\u2019s especially important that workers receive the pay they have earned, and when companies price gouge or charge exorbitant junk fees, they are held accountable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/03\/17\/nyc-must-invest-in-consumer-protection\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}