Are you getting your money's worth?

[Diogenes]

The nationwide average teacher salary during the 2023-24 school year is $71,699, the National Education Association estimates in its annual report that ranks and analyzes teacher pay by state .

That figures marks a 3.1 percent increase from last school year’s average teacher salary of $69,544.

That number was the largest year-over-year increase in pay for the nation’s 3 million teachers since the NEA began its annual reports in 2008.

Average Teacher Pay Passes $70K. How Much Is It in Your State?

Teacher pay is growing faster than at any point since the Great Recession. But it's lower than a decade ago when accounting for inflation.

www.edweek.org

 

[Diogenes]

In 2023, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent:

• $759 Million on Workforce Diversity and Outreach
• $611,203 “Evaluating Microaggressions among Latinx Individuals with Obesity”
• $87,944 on the “Role of the estrous cycle and nucleus accumbens signaling on incubation of oxycodone craving in female rats”

Among other things.



Sources: https://report.nih.gov/funding/categorical-spending#/

https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10725858

https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10475860

 

[Diogenes]

 

[Diogenes]

The federal government is the world’s largest IT customer, spending ~$2TN since 1994.

In theory, this *should* give us great buying power to negotiate good deals for taxpayers, but of course that’s not what happens:

In 2021, the US Department of Agriculture agreed to pay $170 million for one enterprise software, instead of $58 million for a competing one, due to perceived switching costs.

In other cases, vendors have required agencies to repurchase licenses in order to migrate to the cloud.

If the federal government were serious about reducing costs, it would procure government-wide licenses, just like many state governments do, which would save $750mm+ per year (likely much more).

The to-do list for @DOGE continues to grow.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1864803575433449862

 

[Diogenes]

Federal Transit Administration grant (2024)

Amount: $506,250

Recipient: Spokane Public Transportation Benefit

Purpose: planning for the division street corridor to comprehensively plan for BRT-centered transit-oriented development along the entire corridor. The TOD plan will plan for development that will combat climate change challenges facing environmental justice populations and racial equity and barriers to opportunity.


https://usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_WA-2024-034_6955/

 

[Diogenes]

America once prided itself in building great projects; now, those projects are hampered by bureaucracy and overregulation.

It will have taken almost 25 years to permit and construct The Gross Reservoir expansion project in Colorado, expected to be completed in 2027.

It took almost 20 years to permit the Kensington gold mine in Alaska.

It took four years to construct a new runway at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, but it took 15 years to get the permits

It took Shell seven years and $7 billion to get the federal government’s permission to drill a single oil-exploration well off the coast of Alaska.

It took 17 years to receive a permit for the SunZia energy project in the Western US.

It took more than 40 years to permit the Cooper Landing Bypass project, a 15 mile highway project in Alaska. New U.S. highway construction projects usually take between nine and 19 years from initial planning and permitting to completion of construction.


Sources:

https://shorturl.at/pJimi

https://shorturl.at/Qxxdw

https://shorturl.at/LHVFL

https://shorturl.at/dj3GX

http://gao.gov/products/GAO-02-1067T

 

[Walt]

The nationwide average teacher salary during the 2023-24 school year is $71,699, the National Education Association estimates in its annual report that ranks and analyzes teacher pay by state .

It makes a statement about TA that he thinks that is extremely high. How does he even afford food?

 

[Diogenes]

It makes a statement about TA that he thinks that is extremely high.

Who?

 

[Walt]

It costs a lot more not to have universal healthcare. We all know that, which is why everyone except the Republicans want the USA to have universal healthcare.

 

[Diogenes]

It costs a lot more not to have universal healthcare.

Does it?

 

[Hawkeye10]

The nationwide average teacher salary during the 2023-24 school year is $71,699, the National Education Association estimates in its annual report that ranks and analyzes teacher pay by state .

That figures marks a 3.1 percent increase from last school year’s average teacher salary of $69,544.

That number was the largest year-over-year increase in pay for the nation’s 3 million teachers since the NEA began its annual reports in 2008.

Average Teacher Pay Passes $70K. How Much Is It in Your State?

Teacher pay is growing faster than at any point since the Great Recession. But it's lower than a decade ago when accounting for inflation.

www.edweek.org

Its way worse than that because huge portions of teacher compensation is in benefits and deferred income (retirement).

 

[Diogenes]

 

[BartenderElite]

It makes a statement about TA that he thinks that is extremely high. How does he even afford food?

I mean, my God. Probably the most important profession in the world. And that's basically poverty level in some areas of the country.

What a surreal thread.

 

[Diogenes]

that's basically poverty level in some areas of the country.

So, Bidenomics is working?

 

[BartenderElite]

So, Bidenomics is working?

How does that relate to Bidenomics?

I'll answer. It doesn't.

 

[Diogenes]

How does that relate to Bidenomics?

You're the one who mentioned poverty, aren't you?

 

[archives]

The nationwide average teacher salary during the 2023-24 school year is $71,699, the National Education Association estimates in its annual report that ranks and analyzes teacher pay by state .

That figures marks a 3.1 percent increase from last school year’s average teacher salary of $69,544.

That number was the largest year-over-year increase in pay for the nation’s 3 million teachers since the NEA began its annual reports in 2008.

Average Teacher Pay Passes $70K. How Much Is It in Your State?

Teacher pay is growing faster than at any point since the Great Recession. But it's lower than a decade ago when accounting for inflation.

www.edweek.org

Opps, yesterday “copy and paste” had teachers salary at $67,000, now he’s up it to a whopping $71,000, and that is with most Red States like Florida paying their teachers barely over $50,000 a year (https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-teachers-are-among-the-lowest-paid-in-america-nea)

Seventy one or fifty thousand, given the shit teachers are expected to do while enduring from kids, parents, and especially politicians, it ain’t enough

 

[Diogenes]

Opps, yesterday “copy and paste” had teachers salary at $67,000, now he’s up it to a whopping $71,000, and that is with most Red States like Florida paying their teachers barely over $50,000 a year (https://www.fox13news.com/news/florida-teachers-are-among-the-lowest-paid-in-america-nea)

Seventy one or fifty thousand, given the shit teachers are expected to do while enduring from kids, parents, and especially politicians, it ain’t enough

Blame EdWeek, Anchovies.

Average Teacher Pay Passes $70K. How Much Is It in Your State?

Teacher pay is growing faster than at any point since the Great Recession. But it's lower than a decade ago when accounting for inflation.

www.edweek.org

 

[Diogenes]

Probably the most important profession in the world.

You'd better hope not, given the dismal results they produce.

 

[BartenderElite]

You're the one who mentioned poverty, aren't you?

Yep.

You get that there is a "poverty level" no matter who is Prez, right?