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Jobs bill to stop teacher layoffs nears approval
Legislation to provide billions to save the jobs of teachers and other public workers is on track to pass the U.S. Senate, helped along by the votes of a couple of GOP moderates.
Democrats cracked a GOP filibuster on Aug. 4, and the U.S. House of Representatives was being called back from its summer break for an expected final vote next week to help cash-strapped states and school districts.
The $26 billion measure would help states ease their severe budget problems and, advocates said, stop the layoffs of perhaps 300,000 teachers, firefighters, police officers and other public employees. Though scaled back, the bill also would salvage a victory for Democrats who have been unable to deliver most of the jobs help they and President Barack Obama promised.…Read More