EDITORIAL: Teachers deprived, as state splurges on Medicaid
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A school district in northwest
The cause of this shortage is no mystery. We don't pay teachers enough, because we don't make them a priority. We purportedly cannot afford more for schools, but we can extend Medicaid to able-bodied, working-aged adults at a growing expense.
In
"Teachers in northern
That is troubling at face value, and becomes an understatement upon further scrutiny. Assume a teacher making
We ran those numbers through Sperling's Cost of Living calculator, which said:
"A salary of
Students and their teachers fare well in
Before Medicaid expansion, education made up 25.3 percent of
Today, education gets 20 percent of
Few would dispute the propriety of state government supporting education. We cannot say the same of state government providing health insurance for able-bodied, sound-minded, working-aged adults.
THE GAZETTE EDITORIAL BOARD
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