Teachers, students, and union officials gathered around a clock tower in a Wisconsin town one rainy tuesday afternoon. The purpose was to express some views regarding the recently proposed budget. Teachers are in fear of budget cuts stripping the security out of their job. Cuts will be felt through the whole human services field. People have had enough and are taking this matter to the streets and the court houses to get their voice heard.
As a mentor I have people that I help become independent adults. It isn't always easy and can take quite a bit of time. Funding for events that mean the world to some of these people will be gone because of the budget cuts. Its nice to see that people care so much about this that they go out and make their voice heard come rain or shine. If you have thoughts on this please write your state representative and make your voice heard.
" “Schools are falling apart,"said MoveOn.org representative Deirdre De Jardins."Universities are reducing the number of students at the same time Workers need to go back and retrain and figure how they're gonna fit into the new economy. We can't do this. The recently proposed Republican budget, if enacted, would mean firing 65,000 teachers, killing 700,000 jobs, and sending 10,000 veterans into homelessness.”"
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