now, how often have we heard the term shared sacrifice? how about this story tonight. the cool teacher in fresno, california voluntarily gave up more than $800,000 in salary over the next three years to help soften severe budget cuts affecting his city s schools. the money can now be used for 325 schools with 195,000 students. this this superintendent, larry powell, actual rely retired fro his yjob and asked to be rehire for three times less. his salary used to be $288,000 a
some significant progress to talk about today. the region s largest utility company says just 48,000 of its customers are without power. that s down from the peak of 288,000 just a few days ago. hundreds more had their homes completely destroyed by irene. the road to recovery is far more difficult and paved with painful memories of what used to be. it s a beautiful place. i love it. there s no place like it on this earth. when a hurricane comes, it s just horrible to see everybody you ve worked for tear up. i m getting older, and it s getting harder for me to do the physical labor. lilia luciano is live for us in duck, north carolina. there s fare of the lost tourism, especially leading up to the big labor day weekend. reporter: that s right, thomas. especially down south where the towns of hatteras are completely cut off from the mainland. the only road that leads in there is in four different
want. it s not that tough. steve: the irony is when he was senator, barak obama voted not to raise the debt limit. exactly. exactly. as president of the united states, all he s done, we know he passed his trillion dollars failed stimulus program and fra that, we from that we found out last week that the average cost of a job was $278,000 for a government job under the stimulus and even though the president s own numbers say had the president done nothing, we would have seen 288,000 jobs created this week. instead, we re losing jobs. so clearly the president s policies have failed. the unfortunate thing is the president isn t learning from the failures he s done for the last 2 1/2 years and by the way, this week the president said that he had another 5 1/2 years to go on his term. i think the american people need to be consulted on that first. i don t think they see that.
times as many kindle books as hard cover books. some of you fox want to go to the super bowl. let s pull our resource. me and 22 of you out there. let s all go. we got a deal here on 23 tickets. 40 yard line. owners club suite. parking spots. we need to pull our money together to couple with $288,000. mark zuckerburg are you available? of course he is. that s comes out to about $12,500 per ticket. not this year. gm s new electric car the chevy volt will antibiotic available in all 50 states by the end the year. until then you ll only be able to buy the car in a handful of states including california, washington, d.c., new york and texas. some of the country s automakers they were in dire shape for a while as we know. there were bailout, government intervention. but some of them are doing
americans filing first-time claims benefits dropped to 288,000. that takes hope about jobs in the new years. another great year for the stock market, the dow climbed nearly 11% in the tech-heavy nasdaq soared more than 17%. the big question this morning, though, are these signs of better things to come in 2011? let s ask our money man, jim lacamp, radio talk show host. let s start with jobs. people still out of work in america. right. how much can we be encouraged by the new weekly report? first-time claims falling to 388,000? look, the jobs market, craig, is improving but just as a very, very sticky rate. i don t expect it to accelerate much in 2011. we still have questions for employers about the health care plan. the economy is improving but it s not accelerating too much. employers have complained that