{"id":1891,"date":"2011-10-04T15:52:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T19:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2011-10-04T15:52:31","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T19:52:31","slug":"biden-tells-pasco-stories-to-sell-jobs-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2011\/10\/04\/biden-tells-pasco-stories-to-sell-jobs-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Tells Pasco Stories to Sell Jobs Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vice President Joe Biden argued Congress should approve a jobs bill that includes $35 billion to add or maintain education jobs.<\/p><\/div>\n

Pitching the effects on Pasco County elementary students, Vice President Joe Biden made a case for President Barack Obama’s jobs bill Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Biden pulled plenty of local anecdotes for his stop at Oakstead Elementary School in Land O’ Lakes: The $54 million shortfall the district faced this year; the 513 jobs cut; the eight Oakstead teachers no longer working at the school.<\/p>\n

Obama’s jobs bill, Biden said, would mean $35 billion across the country to add or preserve 400,000 education jobs.<\/p>\n

The bill would mean 26,000 education jobs in Florida. Pasco County would get $40 million in emergency funding the county could use towards an expected $26 million deficit next year.<\/p>\n

“No one can tell whether or not these shortfalls put these beautiful kids a month behind in their overall education?” Biden asked. “Six months? A year? Or two years? But the truth is it does slow down…their capacity to learn.”<\/p>\n

Biden noted that private sector employment has grown by 1.7 million in the past year, but 200,000 fewer teachers are working.<\/p>\n

“We can’t tell exactly what that means,” he said, “but we know there’s nothing good that comes from that.”<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama made a similar argument at a speech in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pitching the effects on Pasco County elementary students, Vice President Joe Biden made a case for President Barack Obama’s jobs bill Tuesday. Biden pulled plenty of local anecdotes for his stop at Oakstead Elementary School in Land O’ Lakes: The $54 million shortfall the district faced this year; the 513 jobs cut; the eight Oakstead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1057,1036,1038,1018],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1896,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/1896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}