US Taxpayers Foot $2 Billion Bill for 30,000 Public Employees in Baltimore

The Daily Signal ^ | August 6, 2019 | Audrey Conklin

[Twotone]

American taxpayers have paid for nearly $2 billion in federal aid to fund 30,000 public employees in Baltimore at local and federal levels, an audit shows.

Baltimore reportedly has 13,522 employees with a combined payroll that exceeds $821 million annually. The mayor’s office paid $7 million in 2018 for the salaries of 111 employees and $1 million for public relations fees, according to an investigation conducted by auditors at OpenTheBooks.com.

“We found the city drowning in taxpayer dollars,” Open the Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski wrote in an editorial published Wednesday in Forbes.

Baltimore’s schools pay another 10,770 employees with a combined payroll of $619.3 million—$79.1 million spent outside the classroom, $11.4 million spent on psychologists, $16.4 million for social workers, $7.4 million for counselors, $2.7 million for bus drivers, and $41.2 million for principals and assistant principals, according to the watchdog group.

[W.]

How nice...

[D_Idaho]

Do the math and see what it works out to per employee. LOL!

[atc23]

That’s too bad - looks like Eli Cummings took all the reparations money from evil white people.

[vette6387]

Blacks sure have the “process” of stealing government money finely honed don’t they!

[blueunicorn6]

The best parties in Baltimore are at the city jail!

The female jail guards know how to partay.

[PGalt]

DEFUND parasites from the American taxpayer. REDUCE government by
80-90%.

[Jarhead9297]

So wait a minute, my FEDERAL taxes goes to a state that is unable to balance its own budget to pay ITS STATE EMPLOYEES!? Excuse me but how is this constitutional? Is that a form of taxation without representation?

[momincombatboots]

Hmmm how much for san fran sicko?

[Michael.SF.]

I did, and it worked out to $57,000 per year each for the teachers and $63,000 each for the city employees.

That does not seem out of line, on the surface, for an average.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Blacks sure have the “process” of stealing government money finely honed don’t they!

Is it stealing if they're being handed it in bags and bunches?

[Pajamajan]

bttt

Keep voting democrat.

[monkeyshine]

LOL. Government IS evil!

[Socon-Econ]

Doesn’t the U.S. Social Security have a huge office there?

[Liz]

“We found the city drowning in taxpayer dollars,” Open the Books CEO Adam Andrzejewski wrote in a Forbes editorial Wednesday.
<><> Baltimore reportedly has 13,522 employees with a combined payroll that exceeds $821 million annually.
<><> The mayor’s office paid $7 million for 111 employee salaries in 2018;
<><> The mayor paid $1 million for (cough) public relations fees.

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But can Baltimore explain this?

Baltimore’s schools pay another 10,770 employees a combined payroll of $619.3 million—
<><> $79.1 million is spent outside the classroom,
<><> $11.4 million on psychologists, $16.4 million for social workers, $7.4 million for counselors,
<><> $2.7 million for bus drivers,
<><> $41.2 million for assorted principals and assistant principals.

AND THIS
<><> NPR reported students at Baltimore’s public schools are freezing.....
<><> Baltimore winter classrooms do not have any heat. Kids are freezing.
<><> Baltimore public schools spend a whopping $15,000 plus per student per year,
<><> but Democrat PTB say they can’t afford to heat the classrooms.

IS KEEPING BALTIMORE SCHOOL KIDS FREEZING A DEMOCRAT
SCAM TO SCROUNGE MORE TAX DOLLARS FOR THEMSELVES

[Albion Wilde]

Doesn’t the U.S. Social Security have a huge office there?

It's just outside the city limits, so the employees come from both Baltimore city and the surrounding county.

[Albion Wilde]

Ping!

[ronnie raygun]

This is what keeps Cummings in perpetually life long office

[ckilmer]

yeah federal dollars do not serve the people except to the extent that they pay the salaries of public officials. there’s no bang for the buck. its make work.

[GailA]

btt