{"id":246023,"date":"2026-09-30T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-billion-dollar-budget-yet-to-improve-lives-of-ordinary-liberians-cummings-says\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:00:27","slug":"liberia-billion-dollar-budget-yet-to-improve-lives-of-ordinary-liberians-cummings-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-billion-dollar-budget-yet-to-improve-lives-of-ordinary-liberians-cummings-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: &#8216;Billion-Dollar Budget Yet to Improve Lives of Ordinary Liberians&#8217; &#8211; Cummings Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Political Leader of the opposition Alternative National Congress (ANC), Alexander B. Cummings, says Liberia&#8217;s billion-dollar national budget has yet to translate into meaningful improvements in the lives of ordinary citizens, blaming the government for failing to adequately address unemployment and persistent economic hardship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Cummings made the remarks Tuesday when he appeared on the Classic Breakfast Show in Kakata, where he discussed a range of national issues, including Liberia&#8217;s political&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609300129.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Leader of the opposition Alternative National Congress (ANC), Alexander B. Cummings, says Liberia&#8217;s billion-dollar national budget has yet to translate into meaningful improvements in the lives of ordinary citizens, blaming the government for failing to adequately address unemployment and persistent economic hardship. Cummings made the remarks Tuesday when he appeared on the Classic Breakfast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,17656,6080,6825,6449,4712,1107,6565,8485,257,6472,254],"class_list":["post-246023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-billiondollar","tag-budget","tag-cummings","tag-improve","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberians","tag-lives","tag-news","tag-ordinary","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}