The Obama Stimulus money saved us seven days of school and pay in VUSD and all of California. The stimulus made it possible for our district not to lay off VUSD teachers. In Los Angeles alone as many as 6000 jobs were saved.
Both of our local Congressman Brian Bilbray and Darrell Issa voted AGAINST the stimulus as did EVERY single other Republican in Congress.
Read more about all Republicans voting no here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/14/us/politics/14web-stim.html
Read more about jobs saved by the Stimulus here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-education-jobs20-2009oct20,0,3456241.story
Stimulus saved 6,000 education jobs in L.A.,
report says
More than 250,000 full- and part-time jobs escaped budget cuts nationwide. A more complete accounting will be posted online next week.
By Joe Markman
October 20, 2009
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