Basically, if you work full-time to provide a service that your community demand exist, you should not be in poverty, and without healthcare or affordable housing.

I think this is the first time I've heard any politician call out the horrible pay of school custodians and food service works. Respect.

Neither should ANYONE have to work 2 or 3 jobs to make ends meet. The disabled are FORCED to live in poverty! If you make any sort of money, they will take it out of your Disability pay, so that you cannot make ends meet, at all!

@pepper3732

3 күн бұрын

That's what you call evil, they are evil.

@sdilluminatigrandfounder3807

Күн бұрын

True, but teachers are required to have a Bachelors Degree and normally another year or two for the credential. That means student loans. Many also only work 9 months out of the year. There are other ways they screw you too. You can work three years and only get ONE towards retirement because of the way they figure things. They aren't eligible for social security either. I agree about the disabled, but it is worse for teachers than the general population.

@davidlafleche1142

Күн бұрын

Cut property taxes.

@Michael-hw5wk

12 сағат бұрын

I will be getting disability for PTSD and severe back/rotated pelvis issue. It might not be much, but it is 1,000 times better than working with undereducated, TOXIC as Hell males in fields you hate and are over-qualified for.

Very well said senator 🇲🇽

Good luck everyone for Justice and peace in the world ...

@themanwnoname3454

3 күн бұрын

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Bernie for president

Custodians are heros. They helped me so often when I was a student and when I was a teacher. They deserve much more than they ever get.

Thank you so much for your Great Job Senator Bernie Sanders ...

Dear Senator Sanders, I join the many well wishers and supporters of your valiant and formidable efforts to remind us of what really matter. I am a European living in the UK, the world needs leaders of your caliber and conviction. We pray for the soul of America and Humanity in general. 😉🙏💯👍

You're damn right Bernie. And EVERYBODY working full time should be making a full living wage. Fair is fair.

@ianalan4367

3 күн бұрын

Is it the wages or the cost of commodities?

@sdilluminatigrandfounder3807

Күн бұрын

@@ianalan4367 They didn't just say wage, they said LIVING WAGE.

@EricForney-uz4iz

Күн бұрын

We need a Livable Wage not minimum wage.

@patricksullivan7140

17 сағат бұрын

See how that $20 per hour minimum wage is working out in California. Jus saying

Thank you Sen Sanders for all your hard work.

President Sanders and Jamie Raskin ticket please!!!

As a 30 year veteran teacher now retired I thank you for addressing this problem. My income stayed in proportion to when I first began teaching and I knew I would never own a home on my own. I believe that there is a war on education and educators as well as the family unit. Appealing to the powers that be about fairness and compassion will not see results in itself. Follow the money, the contracts (from food, landscaping, supplies, curriculum, administrative salaries) and the nepotism. Demand transparency and ethical practice in upper management. Stop districts from policing themselves. Investigate the plethora of whistleblower silencing that goes on. This is the tip of the iceberg. All blessings to you.

America needs an exceptional education system for all citizens. We’re in the mess we’re in today in large part because most politicians adore the dumb and distracted.

@rjohnson6846

3 күн бұрын

And greedy

@JoeSmith-pg9rw

2 күн бұрын

Christians hate public secular schools.

The vast majority of professors are also underpaid -- even worse than public school teachers. Half to three-quarters of all professors are p/t employees with zero job security. Most adjunct professors have to work three, four, five or six jobs at once.

Thank you for speaking up for teachers and support staff. children youths/teens need a good education with a raise in pay for teachers and support staff. 🔥💚💙👍🏻👍👍🏽👍🏿

Common people should not be two and three jobs in the richest country in the world and this is going since we all know when,and no matter what part in power nothing changes for the common people in this country, inflation is upon us cost of living is higher,

Exactly. Thank you again, Bernie. I am a teacher, 75, still working because I raised 3 kids alone. It's okay - I love the work, but what a monetary ripoff. Caring for people - teaching, nursing, caregiving of any sort, is demoted automatically because they are nice people and won't hurt others.

Let's rock our Public Schools. In the best ways. Invest in our children's creativity, philosophical minds, embracing community, teaching economics, civic service and the history of what is possible!

Bernie is too quiet on Biden. He needs to speak, either support the president's election run or oppose it.

@munimathbypeterfelton6251

16 сағат бұрын

The reason Bernie did not run for President in 2024 is because he does support Biden and does not want to cause any division within the Democratic Party, knowing full well that it would only lead to a Trump victory.

Thank you Bernie

Thank you so much 😭 Senator-- we need help. Desperately. The people who make everyday life work... Need help.

Great job Bernie 😊

From a 35 year retired teacher, I say Preach!

#Bernie2024

I love you, Bernie Sanders.

TELL IT BERNIE!!🤗💙💙💙

The wealthiest nation in the world can afford to pay top sports divas million dollar salaries for entertaining us while paying low compensation salaries to educate our children. There is something wrong with our priorities.

Thank you, Senator Sanders.

35% dropout rate in Milwaukee

substitution teacher fact check taking the way compilation

If you think public school teachers are struggling, you should see what many teachers are paid at private preschools. Sure, you pay a fortune for your kid to attend private preschool, but small business owners generally do not share the wealth with their employees. Low pay, no vacation days, and no benefits are commonly seen.

How can people consider this entirely rational man to be radical?

It isn't only public school teachers working 2 or 3 jobs go make end meet.

*Biden should have you rally with him.*

@Tom-cz9op

3 күн бұрын

Seriously?

Thank you Senator Sanders! ❤

I had minor surgery, while I was in recovery I heard the nurses talking about their second jobs. Teachers and Nurses should absolutely not have two or three jobs! Horrible they have to do this.

Knowledge is power. Stay educated. Keep learning

In the State of Vermont this is the Case, make it change Bernie.

One, should be more than enough. Public education needs serious upgrades.

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Public schools should be making followers and workers that don’t question anymore. We aren’t as innovative as we should be anymore. When I quit school, I did because it had nothing to do with learning. It was about following the program. It didn’t matter my grades if they didn’t like me taking a nap after I was done with the assignment or if they didn’t like my attendance. Failed for not being a robot. Schools stifle free thinking and independence. After quitting high school I went to college for electronics. A’s and B’s and was a better troubleshooter than anyone I’ve worked with. Why do I say that. Because I solved the problems others couldn’t. This from a failing student. School has nothing to do with learning at all. It’s all about memorizing books. Many failing to understand the medium and how it works. But they got the grade for being good robots.

Exactement c’est Immoral et Indécent pour une Nation comme les USA que Le Corps Enseignant , Instituteur et professeur doivent encore travailler pour boucler les fins de mois . Forcément ça aura des conséquences sur La Qualité de l’enseignement, La disponibilité intellectuelle et L’éducation. Bernie Sanders Président 🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲✌️👍

Potus Harris now.

Well said

President Sanders, you are not going against Biden when it is clear that he is unable to do his job without any help. I'm sure you watched the debate. We need you now more than ever.

Education suffers when teachers have to do anything else but focus all of their attention on their job. In addition to being paid well teachers should also meet rigorous academic standards. I trained teachers for many years in Germany and when they came to me and I asked them why they wanted to be teachers I replied to answers like " because I like children" with 'that's not enough, if you do not have a burning desire to make people smarter and wiser you can't really be a good teacher'.

Bernie, please run for President. At least you have your wits about ya.

🙋‍♀️Bernie Sanders

Just to let the younger generations know- back in the 80's when Reaganism was in high gear, the talk among upper middle class business types who were against the public good and who wanted to see the public good die away was that teachers were warts on society's ass or just leeches. That what was said behind closed doors.

You know Bernie ,neither should everybody else!

Sanders 2024!

Thank you

One of my housemates is a college educator and works 2 other jobs

❤ My daughter-in-Law has a Masters in Education. She left because she was underpaid. 😢

If inflation wasn't so high and things we need to survive, people would not have to work extra jobs.

Where will that extra money come from? More taxes! No

I quit teaching after 4 years and went to law school. Being a lawyer is much easier than teaching school, and it pays better.

Pay teacher fair wages they need to live a decent life, a master degree that cost over $65,000 in college loans to get to be a teacher. Support staff need also to be paid better as they keep our children life safer.

Nobody should have to work 50 to 60 hours a week. I am a janitor with a lazy eye, two bad knees, and sleep apnea. I feel like a _____.

And junior enlisted personnel serving in the Armed-Forces should not have to rely on Food Stamps to feed their families, Bernie!

Indeed

Bernie 2024!

Teachers in my state make over 100k a year plus free health care and a pension. They get paid plenty for only working 9 months of the year or less

@user-sc9lr6kz8t

2 күн бұрын

That ain't the case here in NC!

@michaellambert9329

2 күн бұрын

@@user-sc9lr6kz8t Massachusetts the over taxed state

Also no healthcare for substitutes depending on the state you work in. Go USA go! What a joke of a country.

go to board meeting talking

WHERE'S THE LOTTERY FUNDS FOR EDUCATION BEEN GOING FOR THE PAST 50 DAMN YEARS? NOT BEING PUT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. WHERE'S the money?

Bernie is right

The solution is for the powerful rich and greedy people who run this country to be forced to pay their fair share in taxes to support teachers and other underpaid public workers. That will only happen when enough American voters wake up and start supporting candidates for public office who will vote to make the rich pay their FAIR SHARE in taxes.

Bernie Please fix USA. They are go to drown in this hate politics. love to BERNIE AND THE USA PEOPLE

How about reduce the use of government and the regulations. Less taxes . Small government.

While I wholeheartedly agree that all Americans should be compensated with relevant wages and benefits, the teaching licenses of public school educators in the Sooner State - in reference to the Sooners, American settlers who staked their claims in formerly Indigenous-owned lands until the "Indian" Appropriations Act of 1889 authorized the Land Rush of 1889 and the opening of the land to settlement - are being threatened by Oklahoma state superintendent Ryan Walters if they refuse to teach bronze age mythology as it "relates to American history." In light of this present darkness, I would contend that passing an appropriate bill - possibly expanding and clarifying the Establishment Clause - to mitigate future religious right swipes towards blatant christofascism and the heinous debilitation of the teaching profession is our most urgent public education priority today as equality and equity access have simultaneously been usurped from the most important humans in the public education system: the students and their families. We must all stand up to these nefarious politicians and swipe left on their downright anti-Christ and anti-American exploitation.

Teachers salaries in the US are atrocious....why are Canadian teachers paid so much better and treated better!???!

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I've decided to write in Bernie Sanders' name on the ballot for president in 2024. I don't care if it's "throwing away my vote," if enough of us do it maybe it will at least send a message.

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What are "underserved communities"?

They don't. They work 6 hours a day and a 3 months vacation.

No one should

I don't know how things work where you're from, Bernie but where I live ALL that money used to pay public school workers comes from US - the TAXPAYERS and WE should not have to work 2-3 jobs to make ends meet so THEY don't have to. Nor should we so YOU don't have to. CLOSE ALL the tax loopholes that CORPORATIONS and people that earn more than $140,000 per year have to avoid paying taxes and then maybe we can talk. Until then YOU and your colleagues in CONGRESS are NOT doing your JOB!

Bad democrat,, Bad for poor pipel

No one should, actually.

Actually, I think they should. Why? They get TWO MONTHS OFF in the summer. I don't know any other job that gives that much time off. If you want a paycheck yearround, work yearround. I know and am related to several teachers. If you live within your means, they seam to be doing just fine. Plus, teachers are still one of the last places where the job offers a retirement package. - I think the real issue with teaching in general is "class size" and "shitty parents". If classroom were limited to 15-20 students, I think a teachers workload would be totally manageable. And if parents taught their kids to respect their teachers (and other adults), teachers jobs would be far less stressful....

Are you a communist? Get organized! ☭ Join the Revolutionary Communists of America ☭

Americans by and large, though with notable exceptions, do not believe in education. Anyone who disputes this admittedly very general statement is either dishonest or refuses to face reality. If we really cared about it, which we do not, we would do two things which are as follows: insist on better teachers, and take better care of them. We do not however, and that is the evidence I offer in support of the previously made statement. Better teachers would mean higher academic standards, which means our children would have to work harder. It would also mean an end to a lot of the useless indoctrination of one kind or another, be it from the left or from the right, because one can EASILY spend the whole school day learning to read, write and speak properly, and how to do arithmetic and mathematics. For contrast and for health, there is physical education. An hour or two of that per day would not hurt us either. “Mens sana in corpore sano”, “A healthy mind in a healthy body”. It is not a bad concept, so get out there and sweat. Then hit the books (or the screens) again.

Maybe stop giving our tax dollars to every country except ours

It's not just teachers!! The American People as well !!

How you going to govern living, you’re smarter than me, it can be done?

Don't worry. I would ONLY teach at the university level due to the INSANE amount of right-wing, evangelical extremism one must deal with from parents, administrators, and some of the students. If you are a liberal and non-religious, you are targeted and picked apart under a microscope. Disability is preferable than making less than half of what you should as a teacher (especially since a good teacher works 24/7).

Bernie.you.are.good.men.and.jesus.love.you.💖🙏🕊🌹🌬🌲

I'm sorry, but doesnt EVERY >30h Job deserve to be paid enough so that you can live in dignity from it?

Don't fret, my friend. Soon public schools will be taught by nuns. They need no budget, just Jesus and a ruler. Teachers should ALSO be able to get full Social Security benefits. My wife worked 20 years in public schools as a licensed teacher, and gets $8/mo...

@thesoundsmith

3 күн бұрын

BTW, not that it matters, you are lstill - and -always - my favorite politician. I love AOC and The Squad but you are the Squadfather. Our Yoda against Toyopda...😁

@user-sc9lr6kz8t

2 күн бұрын

Yikes! My condolences to your wife. I taught 35 years and get a full pension and social security benefits-and its way more than $8 a month.

They are not on food stamps you dramatize every situation.

Teachers work like 6 months a year

@user-sc9lr6kz8t

2 күн бұрын

Really?

Just think Vermont teachers cause a 13,8 % increase for education, homeless rate well increase, people will lose their propriety being unable to pay their increase. Plus House insurance went up two hundred dollars a year. Increase sale tax, food tax,, gas tax,, some towns have a town tax to shop ot work there, increase in car registration But that okay too, is it!

Liar as always

Neither should I guy but here we are.

#Bernie2024

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