{"id":385279,"date":"2026-07-24T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385279\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T16:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:51:09","slug":"should-city-end-ready-to-work-to-close-budget-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/385279\/","title":{"rendered":"Should city end Ready to Work to close budget deficit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones this week floated a measure that would end the voter-approved job-training program Ready to Work to cover the city&#8217;s steep budget deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Initiated by Mayor Ron Nirenberg and launched in 2022, Ready to Work aims to provide free training,\u00a0education and job placement services to low-income San Antonians but has routinely fallen short of targets.<\/p>\n<p>Ending the program would require an election in which residents would vote whether to approve redirecting Ready to Work funds.<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts on this issue? Weigh in below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones this week floated a measure that would end the voter-approved job-training program Ready to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-385279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}