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The madison, wisconsin. what's the latest? >> reporter: well, the protesters you mentioned have numbered in the thousands, tens of thousands in the past few weeks but they have dwindled to about 40 or so remaining inside the state capitol, and as you mentioned everyone is waiting to hear governor scott walker's budget proposal scheduled to be released at 4:00 local time. people familiar with the governor's plan say to expect very deep cuts in state spending on schools, perhaps in the order of 9%, and also money going to local governments which some people say could result in reduced employees ...

Doing extraordinarily well here. you don't improve education by disinvesting in it. martha: but we've invested and invested and invested and that's the lesson perhaps people are saying, more money has been felony at it. and when you look at state spending, the results have been declining. so that's not helping. >> but that's not true in madison. here again, i have to disagree with you martha. here again, those investments are paying off in madison. we are seeing test scores improving, lead the nation in national merit scholars, the gap between the low income students and higher income students...

That proposal cuts $1 billion in state spending for local communities and school districts. it also slashes collective bargaining rights for public workers. hundreds of protestors remain inside the capitol. activists are also crowding the statehouse now in columbus, ohio, today. they're rallying against a proposal by governor john kasich that restricts union bargaining rights as well. ohio's senate could vote on that bill as early as tomorrow. an assembly hearing is set for this afternoon on that. it's a story that has our blog buzzing. a new nonprofit that's offering scholarships to white m...

Save salaries but it costs the country trillions. that's the things we have toll worry about here. when we're using government spending as an excuse to achieve other ideological objectives, you have to worry about how that's all going to come out in the wash if we even really discussed what the underlying intention really is. >> and ezra, one more thing. the national cuts sometimes they affect constituent and local jurisdictions as well. tell me about that. >> the federal government is currently supporting a ton of state spending. we're basically handing states money and say here, use this to ...

The latest salvo. ♪ welcome to the journal editorial report i'm paul gigot. the protests that started in wisconsin spread this week to indianapolis and columbus, ohio, and other state capitals where republican legislators are considering measures to reign in state spending and curb union power. in columbus, thousands gathered to protest a senate bill that would limit collective bargaining rights for that state's 400,000 publicul employees. ohio facesfo an 8 billion-dollar budget short fall. steve malanga is a senior fellow at the manhattan institute and author of shakedown. the continuing co...