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Thursday, August 12, 2010

NPR is a mouthpiece for GOP talking points? � Fred Klonsky's blog

NPR is a mouthpiece for GOP talking points? � Fred Klonsky's blog

NPR is a mouthpiece for GOP talking points?

Congress passed a domestic spending bill the other day that provided $10 billion to rehire laid off teachers. The number of teachers who lost their jobs this past Spring vary from 150,000 to 300,000.
A couple of anti-union bloggers have used this range of numbers to question whether there is a problem at all.
The obvious problem is that US schools are very local institutions and so getting an accurate number is not so