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Education is the economic issue of our time, then how exactly is our economy affected by just lopping a whole day of instruction off the school week? how exactly is our economy affected by 46,000 education jobs being lost over the past three months? in order to prevent more of that, in order to prevent things like cops and firefighters being laid off and street lights being shut off, something extraordinary is happening in politics this week. members of the house of representatives are returning to washington during their august recess to vote on emergency funding for states and local governments, a $26 billion state aid bill that will among other things prevent thousands of teachers from being laid off. which is, if you ask tea party activists, it is a horrible idea to try to stop teachers from being laid off. tea party activists have reportedly planned protests against the aid package in at least a dozen states. the hill newspaper says, quote, the activists are upset ....
To natalee holloway and if so, how best to get it out of him, under the situation that he s currently in. thank you, michelle. and form, 30 schools in the detroit public school system will close for the summer. and they will not reopen in the fall, that is because of a budget crunch hitting the city and state. already nearly 2,000 teachers have received pink slips in detroit. across the country, 275,000 education jobs were lost this year. keith johnson is the president of the detroit federation of teachers. keith, thank you so much for joining us. you know, i rae thead this artin msnbc.com about cooley, one of the schools in detroit. it is heart breaking to hear the impact this is having, but in the end, the city says it s because of cash we re seeing these teachers let go. certainly there s some truth to that. the good news is that the vast majority of these teachers who received layoff notices back in ....
People are upset because they don t want medicare cut and parks shut, they want police services and so on. if you cut enough you do get people as upset as we ve seen in greece which i guess is the thing to watch. there are more cuts to come. 275,000 education jobs will go in the new school year starting in september. megyn: well it seems like it s so far away in greece, still, it s interesting we do have unfortunately things we can relate to here. the ripples are upon us. megyn: thank you so much sir. across the pond in britain the economy a big concern as voters brace for an election outcome some say could reshape that country s politics. they are having parliamentary elections today. prime minister gordon brown is hoping to keep his labor party in power. also counsel david cameron and liberal democrat nick clegg. whoever wins the election will ....
Stay held hold steady at 9.7%. if you take a look at it, don, one sect their got hit was education. and yes, offset that layoff? is this going to offset the layoffs? hopefully? this is going to be part of the problem here, though, because if you look at this and this education group says 275,000 education jobs cut next years. it s not just teacher, people who work in schools. and 80% of school districts would implement these cuts and you take a look at this and you can see they re feeling the pain because of budget constraints that are going on at local levels, at the state levels as well. stimulus dollars starting to run out there as well. they re starting to feel some of the pain there in the education. that s part of the issue there, too, don, for them. can we continue on? college students, sallie mae, nonfederal student loans. what s that about, steph? it s a new program that sallie mae is coming out with today. starting next week they re going ....
Sometimes despite all evidence to the contrary that we have potential and that we have something worthy to contribute. as president kennedy once said, our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. the human mind is our fundamental resource, and it s all of you who we entrust every day with that resource and that responsibility. and that s why as president i m committed to doing every single thing i can do to support your work, to create better standards and assessments that you can use in your classrooms, to make critical investments in education at every level through early childhood education through college and to recruit and develop and reward excellent teachers. and it s why through our recovery efforts we ve provided emergency aid that saved the jobs of more than 400,000 teachers and other education jobs and why i believe these efforts must continue. ....