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Will Some States Get Jobbed by EduJobs Bill? | Intercepts

Will Some States Get Jobbed by EduJobs Bill? | Intercepts

Will Some States Get Jobbed by EduJobs Bill?

It’s probably futile to try to apply some precision to a number that was pulled out of a hat, but a story in yesterday’s Boston Globe has – well, let’s call it an “anomaly.”
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was giving a commencement address in Boston, and this was theGlobe’s lede:
US Education Secretary Arne Duncan warned yesterday that as many as 300,000 teachers nationwide, including 4,000 teachers in Massachusetts, could lose their jobs this year if Congress does not provide additional money to aid struggling states and municipalities.
Three paragraphs later, we get this:
He urged Congress to pass a pending $23 billion education and jobs bill that he said would save or