Headlines like this are a good reminder of my prime directive: Don't donate money to political parties. Both Harris and Trump have billionaires in their corner and they don't need your money.

Instead, donate to your friends' mutual aid requests or invest it in your own stocks and investments. These candidates aren't going to do anything meaningful to change your station in life, but they will make a trillion dollars appear out of thin air overnight to avoid a major drop in the stock market and your $10-$20 could mean the difference between skipping a day of food and eating for someone you know and love.

Average cop starting pay is significantly more than teachers. Which one requires the education? Which one contributes more to society?

Unpopular opinion, teachers should make top dollar. A teaching position should easily be in the six figures. It should attract and demand the best people in their fields.

In America, we have collectively decided that we prefer our teachers to be poor and starving, that way our kids stay stupid and can be good little wage slaves.

Stop corporations from buying homes and prices will normalize.

We would have to first value education, and that counts for parents and home life as well.

Instead, we're at war with education trying to water it down as much as possible if not outright eliminate it.

Everyone's pay.

...in the USA.

A key piece of information missing from the title, which made it a waste of my time.

I don't live in that country, and while I feel very much for the plight of any foreign education system in distress, I must focus my energy on things upon which I can affect positive change.

I'm amazed it's not triple.

Let me pop in as a high school teacher in the US. I make decent pay, but it took me over a decade climbing the pay ladder to reach this point. It's only been in the last five years that I've made enough to afford the mortgage on a house (well, prior to all of the rate hikes, but that's another issue entirely). But there's another problem: You're expected to put in 10% of the value (even with first-time buyer incentives) as a down payment (I last looked with any seriousness in '22). I have yet to be able to put away 5% of the average costs in my region, much less 10%. Every time I start building back up, other costs drain most or all of that within a year or two. Unless the housing market bursts big time, I'm not likely to be able to afford a home anytime soon. Note: I would rather keep renting than take a variable-rate mortgage; the last three years have seen previously affordable mortgages with variable rates go sky-high.

The wild thing is that it gets even worse at the college level. Adjuncts get like $25k per year. It's not much better for temporary faculty, etc. It's a steep pyramid with admins and football coaches far away at the top.

• https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/04/20/new-report-says-many-adjuncts-make-less-3500-course-and-25000-year
• https://www.insideedition.com/these-college-professors-are-homeless-wont-stop-teaching-37999 (dystopian "feel good" angle)

Hey Americans.

Shouldn't exactly teacher be capable of sustaining the American lifestyle? Since they are prompting (read advertising /s) the values to the pupils, your children on an level matching doctrine?

Just for a reference. Full-time teachers with an academic degree earn the same amout of an IT-ler in Germany. Though our education system is one of the worst in Europe. So you should elect another idol from europe tbqh.

I know that Lemmy will blindly support this claim. My point is why did I never heard such obvious claim in the Internet yet? If you are about to reply: Go influence your politics please. We are directly influenced by your decisions.

Anyhow, I am not capable of replying to replies and assume others chime in.

Much love, A European Citizien.

Public school teachers need to be paid properly. We need to move huge chunks of funding from the National Defense to Public Schools. Not private schools, for profit schools or 'school vouchers' but public secular schools. We don't need that much military to defend a nation of uneducated idiots, we need smart Americans.

No problem! Every kindergartner knows, the teacher lives at school!

I am somewhat shocked that teachers could start affording houses if you doubled their pay. Maybe like a house in a shitty neighborhood in conjunction with a partner… maybe. I don’t really know but if I had to guess I would say it’s like $40k income for teachers and $150k family income to afford a house.

US Teachers should have optional free on-campus housing. Single dorms & free high quality cafeteria food.