{"id":558,"date":"2017-04-27T23:44:51","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T03:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=558"},"modified":"2017-04-27T23:44:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T03:44:51","slug":"from-the-web-ikea-unveils-plan-to-lift-200000-people-out-of-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/04\/27\/from-the-web-ikea-unveils-plan-to-lift-200000-people-out-of-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: IKEA unveils plan to lift 200,000 people out of poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-559\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-26-at-12.48.14-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1426\" height=\"802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-26-at-12.48.14-PM.png 1426w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-26-at-12.48.14-PM-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-26-at-12.48.14-PM-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-26-at-12.48.14-PM-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-26-at-12.48.14-PM-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>IKEA recently announced it\u2019s building new production centers in Jordan this summer, as part of a plan to create employment for 200,000 disadvantaged people around the world. The facilities will be open and running by August, and will provide jobs to refugees producing rugs, cushions, bedspreads, and other handmade woven items.<\/p>\n<p>These particular facilities are the result of a partnership with the Jordan River Foundation, a non-governmental organization founded by Jordan\u2019s Queen Rania. To start out, these particular plants will only employ 100 people, rising to 400 within two years. About half will be local workers and the other half will be Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/ikea-unveils-plan-to-lift-200000-people-out-of-poverty\/\">Learn more<\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>(via inhabitat) &gt;&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IKEA recently announced it\u2019s building new production centers in Jordan this summer, as part of a plan to create employment for 200,000 disadvantaged people around the world. The facilities will be open and running by August, and will provide jobs to refugees producing rugs, cushions, bedspreads, and other handmade woven items. These particular facilities are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/04\/27\/from-the-web-ikea-unveils-plan-to-lift-200000-people-out-of-poverty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: IKEA unveils plan to lift 200,000 people out of poverty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425248,425622],"tags":[4433],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-renewables","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-90","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}