Politics

Four Facts You Need To Know

By Office of the Speaker

Here are four facts you need to know about the Senate-passed bill the House will consider next week to keep teachers in the classroom and police officers on the beat instead of in the unemployment line:

1. Saves and creates 290,000 American jobs (140,000 teacher jobs saved and 150,000 jobs created or saved, including police officers, firefighters and nurses).

2. These funds are needed immediately to prevent layoffs or actually rehire teachers and prevent law enforcement officers from losing their jobs.

3. Completely paid for, in part by closing tax loopholes that encourage corporations to ship American jobs overseas.

4. Cuts the deficit by $1.4 billion over 10 years.

Full post as published by The Gavel on August 05, 2010 (boomark / email).