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Masters in just a few weeks in april, augusta, georgia. so tiger woods back to what he does better than anyone on the planet, playing golf. at the masters in april and augusta national right here in georgia. we ll get you more details on this story. a lot of reaction to come to this to be sure in just a couple of minutes here in the cnn newsroom. you have years of experience, but no job. what to do? we have tips for older americans who still want to work. ....
But, we heard from maaku who says, i don t have a job yet and it is because the economy is bad. the stimulus package has helped the economy. it takes years to rebuild. one more here. joan writing us, i see the putting america to work signs on a long stretch of the freeway, workers and construction very much in evidence. and we re hearing from you every which way. let s go to the screen behind me. i m going to show you a lot here on facebook. i work for a small manufacturing company that supports the mining industry. we ve heard seven people in the past three months and have plans to hire five more. a tweet from omar who says the money helped get some potholes and sidewalks fixed. we re hearing from people on both sides. the stimulus money has gotten to them in some ways, changed their lives. the other side of this is the government has done a lot more than just this stimulus. it has. in fact, the same economists that the wall street journal spoke to, when asked what has made the ....
Let s get to one of the faces behind the story. mona davidson was one of the more 23 thank you california teachers and staff members who got a letter saying you are likely out of a job. she spent the last five years teaching at indio high school and building the journalism program there. she s also the communications director for the local teachers union and she joins me via skype. mona, good to see you. i m going to get to your story in just a moment here. here s what we getting in numbers. k through 12 schools suffering about 60% of the state budget cut. i keep hearing california schools have been decimated by the cuts over the past two years. what s the evidence of that? what does a decimated education system look like, feel like? what s the teachers experience like in a decimated school district and then the students experience? i know there s a lot there, but take your time. i think one of the things that one way to look at it is the books, textbooks, right there is a prime ex ....
Ultimately a job and my understanding is you re still in college. i don t think i think we re going need to fix that, rachel, my apologies. we ll chanley, let s talk to you for a second here. okay. how can we do this? do you really believe people can use social media to get that next opportunity, that next job? absolutely, tony, and i think one of the first things we can do is just take a step back and look at how reporters are recruiting right now. first of all, i used to be a redruter and when i was a recruiter it cost me $400 to post a position. on tweetmyjobs.com it cost employers $1 to post a position and last month alone they posted almost half a million positions on tweetmy job. so a lot of employers are starting to use social media and ....
What has the stimulus done? it s interesting. remind us in case they missed it last hour, the wall street journal spoke to 54 respected economists all over the country. by far they said the stimulus is doing good things for the country. one example here. they re saying they believe on average, added 1% to economic growth in 2009. so they are saying they believe the stimulus has done some good stuff already. just like you were just doing, tony, reach out to the viewers. in a case like this, it s really significant. the stimulus is supposed to help you get a job, supposed to help you at an individual level. a few of what we got right here at our blog, cnn.com/tony or cnn.com/josh. first one that we re going to bring you is from mark who writes this. in my city, the roads are a joke, factories are still closing, and more out of work. the stimulus did not help. fran says, no, no, no, all the money the government is spending is hurting us all. how ashamed we should be leaving this mess ....