And he was not the only person surfing not safe for work websites. one gsa worker, quote, sometimes became bored during these long hours at the commuter and would often use the computer for personal use to pass the time. investigators estimate that just one agency, four million dollars was paid to employees for time wasted this way. it s not always what you say, but how you say it, one western pennsylvania teenager took that advice to heart and it could mean hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars saved. how? changie ing fronts on printouts change ink. changing from the garamond ink from times new roman or century gothic will save on print costs. the government printing office has praised the work and says it will review the suggestion. today is the deadline to file
Albuquerque police department for more than a year. a creative sixth grader coming up with a way for the federal government to save millions of dollars a year. the pittsburgh teen s science project shows switching the font used on documents can save a ton of expensive printer ink. trace gallagher is live with more. is this going to be, why didn t i think of that, things? maybe. this was initially meant to save the school district money, gretchen. the 14-year-old realized how expensive ink was. he figured out per ounce it s more than french perfume. he did some research, and he found out that if you switch from the new times roman font to the garamond, you can actually save a lot of money. 24% for his school district. that s about $21,000. so his teacher said, look, send this all to harvard. researchers there looked at it and said, you need to go bigger. he went to the federal
Lot of things like passports because it s too difficult and you have to be precise. passports have to be absolutely the same, so they can t just switch all the fonts to the passports because then they could have problems with, you know, phoney passports and stuff. but the school district you think would give it a shot. the school district you think, with all the money we re pouring into school districts and watching the gpas and things like that go down. by the way, i love your pronunciation of garamond. all right. i didn t know you were so french. trace, see you later. many americans feeling a pinch in their pocketbooks the past few years. are you one of them? get ready because that trip to the grocery store is about to cost you even more. and has the gop already decided jeb bush is the best candidate for the white house? what some heavy hitters are doing right now that won t sit well with some in the republican base. we ll fill you in. óqoqúúñ@