{"id":73775,"date":"2026-05-20T07:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/george-soros-group-pledges-300m-to-us-economic-security-and-civil-liberties\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T07:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T12:58:23","slug":"george-soros-group-pledges-300m-to-us-economic-security-and-civil-liberties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/george-soros-group-pledges-300m-to-us-economic-security-and-civil-liberties\/","title":{"rendered":"George Soros group pledges $300m to US economic security and civil liberties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire philanthropist\u2019s Open Society Foundations has worked to advance justice and human rights around world<\/p>\n<p>For decades, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/\">Open Society Foundations<\/a> have worked to advance justice and human rights in Africa, the Middle East and trouble spots around the world. But the OSF\u2019s latest major investment is aimed at a crisis closer to home.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the organisation, founded by the billionaire philanthropist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/george-soros\">George Soros<\/a> and headquartered in New York, announced a $300m spend aimed at boosting economic security and defending civil liberties in the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/20\/george-soros-pledge-economic-security-civil-liberties\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire philanthropist\u2019s Open Society Foundations has worked to advance justice and human rights around world For decades, the Open Society Foundations have worked to advance justice and human rights in Africa, the Middle East and trouble spots around the world. But the OSF\u2019s latest major investment is aimed at a crisis closer to home. On &#8230; <a title=\"George Soros group pledges $300m to US economic security and civil liberties\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/george-soros-group-pledges-300m-to-us-economic-security-and-civil-liberties\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about George Soros group pledges $300m to US economic security and civil liberties\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}