Americans have lost trust in government
Americans are more dissatisfied with their government than the citizens of any other major democracy, according to an analysis by the Washington Post.
Fewer than 20% of Americans trust government, according to polling by the Pew Research Center.
As the Post’s Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse write, Americans “believe the political system is broken and that it fails to represent them. They aren’t wrong.”
In recent years, however, trust has been in a slump. Since 2007, trust in government hasn’t ...
US Teachers’ Unpaid Overtime Hours Represent 7.5 Billion in Lost Wages
The average US teacher works 540 hours more than their contracted amount. In total, that’s 1.74 billion hours of unpaid overtime that teachers are putting in across the country without being paid for it.
This figure underscores the immense value of the countless extra hours educators dedicate to nurturing the future of our society, often without financial recognition.
The average teacher contract is for 39 weeks each year.
This means at a full-time workload of 40 hours per week, teachers should ...
