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The Bailout in Perspective

Read in The Week (10/3/2008):

"The $700 billion being proposed for the Wall Street bailout is about $175 billion more than school districts, states, and the federal government spent last year on all forms of public education."

Do you start to understand why this bailout is such a big bad deal?

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