Posted on 10/04/2011 1:32:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama's latest economic plan could save or create up to 400,000 education jobs, the White House said on Tuesday as Obama pushed his $447 billion plan to revive the economy.
Obama's proposed American Jobs Act would provide $30 billion for state and local efforts to retain, rehire and hire educators, supporting 392,400 jobs, according to projections released by the Education Department and White House Council of Economic Advisers.
That money would last one to two years and states would have to sign agreements they would not use the funding for other purposes.
"We know that putting hundreds of thousands of education workers on the unemployment line would be terrible for children, terrible for education, and would do great damage to our nation's economy," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a call with reporters.
State and local governments are still wounded by the collapse in their revenues caused by the housing bust, financial crisis and recession. They are slashing spending, putting schools in a "mixed but deteriorating fiscal situation," the non-partisan Government Accountability Office. recently reported.
Nearly three-fourths of schools expect to cut spending this school year, according to the GAO.
The White House report said state and local funding cuts were putting as many as 280,000 teacher jobs at risk next year.
Texas would get the biggest boost from Obama's initiative, with an estimated 39,500 education jobs being supported by the plan. Obama visited the state on Tuesday to promote his tax and spending plan intended to drive down the nation's 9.1 percent unemployment rate.
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400,000 more government drones. Oh, what fun.
Coupled with his lack of/immigration policy I think it's doable.
What part of NO doesn’t this MORON get!
Far better idea:
Fire 400,000 Teachers Union social parasites.
Issue school vouchers for non-union private and charter schools.
“”The usual bait and switch, the Feds give you the money, you bring the teachers on and then when the dough runs out you are stuck paying for it. What a cheap huckster this guy is””
Ah Ha! Kinda like Clinton’s 100,000 more cops on the street??
Every day I ask myself how did a guy like this with a name like this get to rule over AMERICANS? He belongs in Africa - pick any country there and he’d fit right in.
Rooters is a Brit commie website. Nothing it prints is believable or coherent.
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