Obama's Broken Promise Explained

Obama's Broken Promise Explained
US President Barack Obama speaks before signing a memorandum on reducing the burden of student loans on June 9, 2014 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
US President Barack Obama speaks before signing a memorandum on reducing the burden of student loans on June 9, 2014 in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGAN (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

In an era when it is commonplace to speak about government services in denominations of millions, billions, and (when we think of the federal debt) even trillions, 57,000 may not seem like a very large number. But when you put that number in human terms – it’s enough bodies to fill every seat in Dodger Stadium plus a thousand people left over – it becomes a very significant figure.

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