{"id":1976,"date":"2016-04-23T16:54:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T20:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2016-04-23T16:54:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T20:54:34","slug":"an-underreported-feature-of-planned-changes-in-us-currency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2016\/04\/23\/an-underreported-feature-of-planned-changes-in-us-currency\/","title":{"rendered":"An underreported feature of planned changes in US currency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am very pleased with the change of heart that places Tubman on the twenty and leaves Hamilton on the ten. Tucked away at the end of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/04\/treasurys-lew-to-announce-hamilton-to-stay-on-10-bill-222204\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a><\/strong> is another hugely important change, one that is long overdue. Many (if not most) currencies have different sizes for different denominations, enabling people with poor or no vision to be able to tell which bills they are handling.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios told reporters &#8230; that the new currency will include &#8230; \u201cFor the first ti<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">me in our history, &#8230; a new tech-help feature intended to aid the blind and the visually impaired,\u201d Rios said. \u201cThis is a new, complex and critical, important element in the production of modern U.S. currency.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>As a disabled person, I am keenly aware of what a poor job our society does in providing accommodations that are needed for full inclusion. This one improvement is a huge step forward both symbolically and for its pragmatic value.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am very pleased with the change of heart that places Tubman on the twenty and leaves Hamilton on the ten. Tucked away at the end of this article is another hugely important change, one that is long overdue. Many (if not most) currencies have different sizes for different denominations, enabling people with poor or &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2016\/04\/23\/an-underreported-feature-of-planned-changes-in-us-currency\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}