THIS. This is what politics should be.
James Talarico @jamestalarico
11 Mar 2021
When I was a public school teacher, I struggled to make ends meet. My coworkers drove Ubers at night and sold their blood plasma for extra money. Today I filed a bill mandating a minimum salary of $70,000 for every teacher in Texas. #txlege

Mar 12, 2021 · 4:06 AM UTC

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There is a saying that has become a folk phrase "teaching is a sacred profession"
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This is what happens when you get actual working people in congress. We’ve experimented with millionaires representing the people for too long-look where it’s gotten us. We have words like “trickle down” and debates on $600. It needs to end.
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We need someone like him in Arizona where we have a HUGE teacher shortage and the pay 48th in the US.
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Paid for by property tax increases that the elders cannot afford?
Replying to @marwilliamson @SusanSarandon
In 1977, Dr’s Jonas Salk & Albert Sabin testified b4 a senate subcommittee to discuss the appropriate use of the different polio vaccines. It was concluded that Salk’s vaccine wld b used in the Western Hemisphere & Sabin’s oral (shedding) vaccine wld be used in the East.
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THIS. This is what politics should be.
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$70,000 a year to be a public school teacher? LMAO