Americans cringe at Washington’s dysfunction, and rightly so: This Congress could become the least effective one in decades. Partisan divides are keeping much-needed solutions to immigration, education reform, and deficit reduction out of reach. So it’s not surprising that state and local leaders across the country are bypassing Washington and charting their own course for action.If Congress can’t do the job, we can turn the corner on such challenges as lack of access to quality early childhood education, generational poverty, and restoration of aging infrastructure by taking a look at what’s happening in places like Tulsa, New York City, and Milwaukee, where mayors and state legislators are collaborating with philanthropic and nonprofit organizations to develop innovative programs that are achieving real results on the ground.
ok we have the Pres. having to bypass republicans in order to get fair wages, health care, medicare and social security and keep them in your reach, now we have states basically doing the same i would think those representatives will raise the looking for jobs numbers up in 2014, then they can blame it on themselves.
i wrote this on my blog over 2 years ago and it's still relevant today,
Saturday, May 14, 2011
ULTIMATE POETIC JUSTICE
Hello,what if all the republicans against healthcare time in office runs out and they are forced to enter work force without insurance buying power of gov. employees then loose that job and can't afford insurance because the voucher program they passed is insufficient? "POETIC OR WHAT"
Posted by nick johnson at 10:08 AM
In Tulsa, philanthropic leaders saw powerful evidence that early childhood education could help eliminate the achievement gap between rich and poor students; children who attended an early childhood education program were 29 percent more likely to graduate from high school than their peers. But good preschool programs were rare in the city,so in 2006, the George Kaiser Family Foundation established the first Tulsa Educare center to provide high-quality early childhood education to low-income students, and the State of Oklahoma contributed another $10 million to improve pre-K education for low-income students. With evidence that students who spend 3-5 years in an Educare program are significantly better prepared for kindergarten than their peers, the George Kaiser Family Foundation has provided support to open additional Educare sites in recent years.
not seen by the right wing because they only focus on their created lies of doom and gloom impossible for them to see pass their foggy rhetoric, just like the jobs promise of 2010, and the plans of 2012 that they told us they will tell us after the election, what idiot thought that one up, you'll vote for them just to hear a plan they couldn't tell you because they have none but after you elect them too late, plan? psych
