the thin blue line is getting thinner across america. the justice department reporting today 12,000 police officers will lose their jobs this year, maybe more. it s the first decline in law enforcement jobs in america in 25 years. when president obama sent his american jobs act to congress, it included $35 billion for keeping teachers, cops and firefighters on the job across the country. republicans in the senate blocked the jobs act. although americans overwhelmingly say they want congress to keep cops and firefighters and teachers on the job, when last week president obama put that one super popular p provision into a new smaller bill, the senate rejected it yet again. showing every sign that president obama gets that congress is not going to pass his jobs act either in big chunks or bite-sized pieces, the white house today rolled out a new agenda for trying to help the economy. a new agenda that can get at least some things done without the help of republicans in congress. president
your neighborhood? and it s the tennis player, it s the mail carrier, it s the firefighters who come to save you when you call and the teachers who show you all about the alphabet. your neighborhood if it s like a lot of the neighborhoods in this country has been rearranged a bit since wall street blew up at the end of the bush administration and we got the great recession to show for it. flint, michigan, is a tough neighborhood. one of the murder capitals of the country. flint, michigan, laid off most of its police force there. paterson, new jersey, patterson sent a quarter of its officers home this spring. the tiny town of alto in texas just eliminated its whole police force. we ve talked about that before on the show. if you do a google news search on police layoffs, read about towns from wenatchee, washington, to the port authority of virginia, considering or going through with massive police layoffs. the thin blue line is getting thinner across america. the justice department repo
the thin blue line is getting thinner across america. the justice department reporting today 12,000 police officers will lose their jobs this year, maybe more. it s the first decline in law enforcement jobs in america in 25 years. when president obama sent his american jobs act to congress, it included $35 billion for keeping teachers, cops and firefighters on the job across the country. republicans in the senate blocked the jobs act. although americans overwhelmingly say they want congress to keep cops and firefighters and teachers on the job, when last week president obama put that one super popular provision into a new smaller bill, the senate rejected it yet again. showing every sign that president obama gets that congress is not going to pass his jobs act either in big chunks or bite-sized pieces, the white house today rolled out a new agenda for trying to help the economy. a new agenda that can get at least some things done without the help of republicans in congress. president o