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    "title": "If You Have A Job, You Work Almost One Hour Per Day To Fund Public Schools",
    "author": "pmjones",
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            "title": "Education",
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    "created": "2013-04-23 13:31:05 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>1) Revenues collected by governments for public education in the United States totaled $593.7 billion. About $261.4 billion came from local sources, $258.2 billion from state sources, and $74 billion from federal sources.</p>\n<p>2) That\u00e2\u0080\u0099s about $1,922 from each and every American.</p>\n<p>3) Or $2,531 from each adult, 18 and older.</p>\n<p>4) Or $4,567 from each non-farm American worker on a payroll.</p>\n<p>5) That amounts to 11.4 percent of the average worker\u00e2\u0080\u0099s salary, or $2.20 per hour.</p>\n<p>6) The average American employee thus works almost one hour every day to fund public schools.</p>\n<p>7) It would take the entire salary of 14,842,500 employees to pay for U.S. public schools, equivalent to the entire retail trade workforce.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2013/04/22/seven-not-so-fun-facts-about-the-costs-of-public-education/\">Seven Not-So-Fun Facts About the Costs of Public Education \u00c2\u00ab The Greenroom</a>.</p>\n"
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