The vast majority of Americans believe teachers don’t receive the respect—or pay—they deserve, but that won’t stop the U.S. from forcing educators to work in potential COVID-19 hotspots with barebones safety protocols. Labor exploitation is anything but a new concept, and on this episode of the “Bigger Picture,” I discuss how our treatment of teachers exemplifies systemic flaws in the economy.
Show notes:
- Israel Ministry of Health COVID-19 Data Dashboard
- Israeli Data Show School Openings Were a Disaster That Wiped Out Lockdown Gains
- Amid New Surge In Virus Cases, Israel’s Top Public Health Official Resigns
- Trump urges states to reopen schools this fall amid pandemic
- Donald Trump Speech Transcript: Safely Reopening Schools Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
- How Many Teachers Are at Risk of Serious Illness If Infected with Coronavirus?
- The Changing Age Structure of U.S. Teachers
- The Teacher Burnout Epidemic
- The Largest Labor Unions in the US
- The rise of teacher unions: A look at union impact over the years
- Answering the Call: The History of NEA
- CPI Inflation Calculator
- A Brief History of Teacher Strikes in the United States
- Teacher Strikes: 4 Common Questions
- LAUSD teachers’ strike ends. Teachers to return to classrooms Wednesday
- Strikes get “silent treatment” at NEA convention, as candidates take center stage
- Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31
- Will Unions Let Schools Reopen?
- Texas Teachers Union May Strike Over COVID-19 Precautions
- Florida Teachers Sue To Block School Coronavirus Reopening Mandate
- The Rise of Neoliberalism: The Cause of Extreme Inequality?
- A Report Card on Our Nation’s Commitment to Public Schools
- Inside the Pricey, Totally Legal World of College Consultants
- Oklahoma Governor Compares Striking Teachers To ‘A Teenage Kid That Wants A Better Car’
- About one-in-six U.S. teachers work second jobs – and not just in the summer
- Billionaires are getting even richer from the pandemic. Enough is enough
- Bernie Sanders on target saying 3 richest have as much wealth as bottom half of all Americans
- Average Teacher Salary Down 4.5 percent, NEA Report Finds
- Low Teacher Salaries 101
- Exactly How Teachers Came to Be So Underpaid in America
- Sexism is at the heart of why teachers are striking
- Teachers With Student Debt: The Struggle, The Causes And What Comes Next
- The teacher pay penalty has hit a new high
- US life expectancy has been declining. Here’s why
- Coronavirus Is the Perfect Disaster for ‘Disaster Capitalism’
- Turns Out That Trillion-Dollar Bailout Was, in Fact, Real
- We’re Dying From Coronavirus. Corporations Are Getting Rich Off It.
- Billionaires’ Pandemic Wealth Gains Burst Through $700B
- Phoenix-area teachers, districts grapple with buying PPE for the classroom
- As the World Economy Grinds to a Halt, the U.S. War Machine Churns On
- Missouri Budget Slashed By $448 Million Due To Coronavirus, Education Hardest Hit
- Governor Parson Fails to Protect Communities, Taxpayers with Mandatory Minimum Bill Signing
- Wealth, Inheritance and Social Mobility
- Various articles about Zoom meetings to discuss reopening schools
- Beloved Arizona teacher dies of coronavirus, two others sharing classroom also infected