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HI gov to cut teacher pay by 20% as tourism economy collapses
EAGNews.org ^ | April 16, 2020 | Victor Skinner

Posted on 04/18/2020 7:12:15 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

Hawaii Governor David Ige is preparing to slash teacher salaries by 20 percent as the state faces the grim financial realities of the coronavirus pandemic...Inge warned the state’s public sector unions about the possible pay cut on Tuesday, just months after negotiating more than $160 million in raises for the next two years. Those raises were virtually certain to pass the legislature weeks ago, but the pandemic forced lawmakers to reverse course...

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TOPICS: Education; Government
KEYWORDS: education; hawaii; teachers
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Sorry teachers. Everybody is going to lose something due to this mess.
1 posted on 04/18/2020 7:12:15 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

Well..maybe people are also figuring out that “education” ain’t worth what they are being charged.


2 posted on 04/18/2020 7:17:27 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Anyone tired of the Chinese Fire Drill (tm) yet???)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Not sorry.
We’ve been paying them too much to indoctrinate our young against the country.


3 posted on 04/18/2020 7:17:55 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: CheshireTheCat

He just lost the Teacher’s Union backing.


4 posted on 04/18/2020 7:19:07 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

What will they make after the cut? 140,000 dollars? :)


5 posted on 04/18/2020 7:19:25 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Not a bad start.

L


6 posted on 04/18/2020 7:19:29 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Looking for the world’s smallest ukulele.


7 posted on 04/18/2020 7:19:45 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: goodnesswins

That, and the fact that in some states teachers are getting the lion’s share of pay increases compared to state, county, and local government workers, and these workers are getting P.O’ed and do not want to suffer alone when the cuts come.


8 posted on 04/18/2020 7:20:12 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: CheshireTheCat

The more the leftists suffer economically the quicker this shutdown nonsense will end. Government employees necessarily will take pay cuts, be furloughed and/or dismissed. I detect yet another leftist, anti-Trump effort backfiring on the blue states and their nanny state politicians.


9 posted on 04/18/2020 7:21:07 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

If it was Republicans it would be WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN!


10 posted on 04/18/2020 7:21:24 PM PDT by bboise
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To: CheshireTheCat

Should never had become a state to begin with. Native Hawaiians are the worst, their racism would make even the KKK blush.


11 posted on 04/18/2020 7:24:31 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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THIS is the sort of thing that will get the states in gear!


12 posted on 04/18/2020 7:27:54 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Education is a privilege, not a right. ANd to be an educator should not be an entitled anointment.


13 posted on 04/18/2020 7:27:57 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: dp0622

Good one!


14 posted on 04/18/2020 7:28:17 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

That will wrap up this lockdown quickly.


15 posted on 04/18/2020 7:30:06 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Lurkinanloomin

For 2/3’s of a day during 2/3’s of a year. My real estate taxes are 3%+ of the purchase price of my house; and more than 2 of those 3 percentage points are the school tax.

Top of scale is 17 years (age 39) at about $102,000; with add-ons for absolutely *any* effort they make above the bare minimum, such as getting a master’s degree (dubious value); coaching the debate team or sports, etc.

Plus, they all have side gigs since they have so much free time, retire at 57 with 3 pensions (state, school district and union); and health insurance for life, and collect it for 30+ years since they have a stress-less life and live forever. Work 35 years, collect pension for 30+ years with COLA’s - make more retired than they did working.

For glorified day care.


16 posted on 04/18/2020 7:31:11 PM PDT by Reagan80 ("In this current crisis, government is not the solution to our problems, government IS the problem")
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To: BradyLS

It happens every now and then :)


17 posted on 04/18/2020 7:31:14 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: CheshireTheCat

I can see the outcome will be reduced staff.


18 posted on 04/18/2020 7:31:26 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: BlueStateRightist
I detect yet another leftist, anti-Trump effort backfiring on the blue states and their nanny state politicians.

Unless the MSM can spin their way out of it, the Democrats and leftists are going to own the shutdown and its consequences.

19 posted on 04/18/2020 7:33:17 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: CheshireTheCat

As I predicted, the non-economist politicians and teachers didn’t stop to do a back-of-the-napkin calculation about what playing “chicken” with the economy might cost them in the end.


20 posted on 04/18/2020 7:38:51 PM PDT by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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