Are they against putting teachers and police officers and firefighters back on the job?
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They got into trucks and went to Ground Zero, the construction workers and iron workers, our police officers and firefighters.
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Giuliani said the latest confirmed citywide death toll was 82, and 370 police officers and firefighters are missing and feared dead.
Reed has said he is interested in turning foreclosed homes into inexpensive housing for first responders such as police officers and firefighters.
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Or knowing that my teachers, police officers and firefighters are already under-appreciated but now face fear like that of which I have every day?
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Others, meanwhile, worry that police officers and firefighters are being turned into scapegoats because they are the city's most visible employees earning the largest pensions.
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One-third of the Recovery Act was emergency relief, like increasing unemployment benefits and helping states keep teachers and police officers and firefighters from losing their jobs.
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In the coming days, Members of Congress will have to take a stand on whether they believe we should put teachers, construction workers, police officers and firefighters back on the job.
When our veterans come home, I want to serve them as well as they've served us. (Applause.) I want to help them find jobs as police officers and firefighters and first responders.
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But what happened as a consequence was for two years we were able to prevent some of the worst choices that states might have to make about laying off teachers and police officers and firefighters and so on.
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Let's create a Veterans Jobs Corps that can hire police officers and firefighters in communities that need them. (Applause.) Let's get a whole bunch of construction workers to rebuild our roads and our bridges, our ports and our airports. (Applause.) Let's rebuild our schools.
Since that time, we've passed a Recovery Act that's put a middle-class tax cut into people's pockets, that has invested in infrastructure all across this country and put people back to work, and something that isn't noted often enough, has helped stabilize state budgets at a time in which we could have seen hundreds of thousands of layoffs in teachers and police officers and firefighters.
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We've provided assistance to states like Virginia to help prevent police officers and teachers and firefighters from being laid off.
So this week Congress is going to get to vote on whether or not hundreds of thousands of police officers and teachers and firefighters get back on the job.
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They will undoubtedly try to frame the issue as one of fairness, arguing that if banks and millionaires get bailouts, then so too should hard-working teachers, police officers, and firefighters.
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And I think Jordan just reminded us government are our police officers and our firefighters.
Among the dead were 60 police officers and 343 firefighters who responded to the scene.
Nationwide, 142 police officers and 43 firefighters died on the job in 2000.
He also thanked the police officers, firefighters and others who helped people after the explosions.
"There are people who do this every day, " referring to police officers, firefighters and other first-responders.
And that made it worse, because in a recession two things happen: Number one, the federal government helps out states and localities to prevent teacher layoffs and firefighters and police officers from being laid off, and all that costs money.
We made health insurance 65 percent cheaper for families relying on COBRA. We acted to close state budget gaps to prevent hundreds of thousands of teachers and public school workers and firefighters and police officers from being laid off all across the country, including right here in Nevada.
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President Obama is intensely focused on creating jobs, and that's why he has put forward proposals to cut taxes for small businesses hiring, to help families refinance their homes, to invest in infrastructure and to put teachers, firefighters and police officers back to work.
Families of victims invited to go up left names and comments too, as did firefighters and police officers who were first responders.
For example, one of the weak spots in our economy has been in the area of state and local government, where budget constraints have forced decisions upon officials in states and localities to lay off teachers, to lay off firefighters and police officers.
Tell Congress to pass the American Jobs Act, and there also will be funding to save the jobs of firefighters and police officers and first responders who risk their lives to keep us safe.
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It comes as a surprise to most Americans that the employee most likely to be fired, fined, disciplined or even jailed for something said in social media is a school teacher, followed by nurses and healthcare workers, with public employees (firefighters, police officers, and court clerks) close behind.
And to the extent they have an affect, they tend to hurt retired firefighters and police officers in the United States who have already made a lot of sacrifices for their community.
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And then the recession hit, and so a lot of money was going out to help local communities keep their firefighters and police officers and teachers on staff -- and Pat Quinn knows how important that was to prevent massive layoffs at the state level.
It will help states avoid laying off police officers, firefighters, nurses and first responders.
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