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florida next hour. jon: in europe, a tough lesson in economics and government spending. teachers and students are protesting in the streets of both italy and france over budget cuts to the education system. greg burke is in rome streaming live for us. what s the battle about there in italy first, greg? reporter: well, jon, there are two main complaints. basically, teaching has always been seen as a very secure job, a kind of job a lot of europeans and certainly italians like. you re not going to get paid a whole lot, but a job for life and then a pension. and the way it looks now is the government has to trim the budget. they say some of these teaching jobs are, in fact, precarious, and they are likely to be cut with the budget cuts. now, the second issue is funds for research at the universities. those are definitely going to be cut as well, so a lot of people on the sort of professor track, young people working in be research at the universities are facing either losing their jobs

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