12/02/2014
https://www.congress.gov...
"The situation has become so absurd that 4 hedge fund managers on Wall Street made more money last year than every kindergarten teacher in America."
"I hope that the Federal Government can make providing funding for those programs a priority, and invest in teachers like Senator Sanders Pay Our Teachers Act proposes with a starting salary of $60,000..."
"Nearly 8 percent of teachers leave their profession each and every year, double the rate in countries like Canada."
"We are spending huge amounts of money locking people up in this country, and they leave prison without the skills they need to succeed in the civilian world."