{"id":3340,"date":"2018-09-22T05:35:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T11:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2018-09-22T05:35:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T11:35:54","slug":"public-school-teachers-are-not-underpaid-they-earn-more-than-the-taxpayers-who-have-to-pay-their-salaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3340","title":{"rendered":"Public school teachers are not underpaid; they earn more than the taxpayers who have to pay their salaries!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journal14.com\/2018\/09\/21\/public-school-teachers-are-not-underpaid-they-earn-more-than-the-taxpayers-who-have-to-pay-their-salaries\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/09\/hope-brown-300x395.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mrs Brown teaches at Woodford County High School in Versailles, Kentucky. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestplaces.net\/economy\/city\/kentucky\/versailles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The average income for a resident of Versailles is $24,652, and the median family income is $41,915<\/a>. Mrs Brown earns, just from her salary at Woodford County, 2\u00bc <i>times<\/i> as much as the average worker in her community, and 31% more than the median family income there. How, I have to ask, is Mrs Brown forced into \u2018financial juggling,\u2019 unless she has been living well beyond her husband\u2019s and her means?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have been saying for decades that teachers are OVERPAID. In my community they are making over $50k\/yr when the average annual family income in my community is $19k\/yr. Their pay needs to be cut.<\/p>\n<p>This is true of all public employees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs Brown teaches at Woodford County High School in Versailles, Kentucky. The average income for a resident of Versailles is $24,652, and the median family income is $41,915. Mrs Brown earns, just from her salary at Woodford County, 2\u00bc times as much as the average worker in her community, and 31% more than the median &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3340\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Public school teachers are not underpaid; they earn more than the taxpayers who have to pay their salaries!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-education","category-greedy-liberals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}