Read President Obama's full speech from his University of Michigan visit | MLive.com: "When they put these budgets together, usually they don’t tell you exactly what they’d cut because they know you wouldn’t like it, so you have to kind of do the math. But compared to my budget, if they cut everything evenly in the amount that they’re talking about, within a few years about 170,000 kids would get cut from early childhood education. About 200,000 new moms and children would get cut off from the programs that help them to get healthy food. Funding for 21,000 special education teachers would be cut off. And if they wanted to make smaller cuts in any of these -- in any one of these areas, they’d have to make bigger cuts in others. It even cuts Pell grants, which makes it harder for students to pay for a college education." Read it all via link
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