The anti-tax small-goverment teawads never do get this through their thick skulls: This is the most telling part of the article and helps show the damage really done by Act 10: Leah Lipska, the president of Local 1, scoffs at Mr. Walker’s famous suggestion that public employees are the “haves” in society, noting that many earn less than $35,000 a year. And the law, says Ms. Lipska, an information systems technician with the state corrections system, has made things much worse. “My family is now on food stamps,” said Ms. Lipska, a mother of three who earns $18.62 an hour. … Continue reading You’re Paying Either Way

The anti-tax small-goverment teawads never do get this through their thick skulls: This is the most telling part of the article and helps show the damage really done by Act 10: Leah Lipska, the president of Local 1, scoffs at Mr. Walker’s famous suggestion that public employees are the “haves” in society, noting that many earn less than $35,000 a year. And the law, says Ms. Lipska, an information systems technician with the state corrections system, has made things much worse. “My family is now on food stamps,” said Ms. Lipska, a mother of three who earns $18.62 an hour. … Continue reading You’re Paying Either Way

The anti-tax small-goverment teawads never do get this through their thick skulls: This is the most telling part of the article and helps show the damage really done by Act 10: Leah Lipska, the president of Local 1, scoffs at Mr. Walker’s famous suggestion that public employees are the “haves” in society, noting that many earn less than $35,000 a year. And the law, says Ms. Lipska, an information systems technician with the state corrections system, has made things much worse. “My family is now on food stamps,” said Ms. Lipska, a mother of three who earns $18.62 an hour. … Continue reading You’re Paying Either Way

The anti-tax small-goverment teawads never do get this through their thick skulls: This is the most telling part of the article and helps show the damage really done by Act 10: Leah Lipska, the president of Local 1, scoffs at Mr. Walker’s famous suggestion that public employees are the “haves” in society, noting that many earn less than $35,000 a year. And the law, says Ms. Lipska, an information systems technician with the state corrections system, has made things much worse. “My family is now on food stamps,” said Ms. Lipska, a mother of three who earns $18.62 an hour. … Continue reading You’re Paying Either Way

The anti-tax small-goverment teawads never do get this through their thick skulls: This is the most telling part of the article and helps show the damage really done by Act 10: Leah Lipska, the president of Local 1, scoffs at Mr. Walker’s famous suggestion that public employees are the “haves” in society, noting that many earn less than $35,000 a year. And the law, says Ms. Lipska, an information systems technician with the state corrections system, has made things much worse. “My family is now on food stamps,” said Ms. Lipska, a mother of three who earns $18.62 an hour. … Continue reading You’re Paying Either Way

The anti-tax small-goverment teawads never do get this through their thick skulls: This is the most telling part of the article and helps show the damage really done by Act 10: Leah Lipska, the president of Local 1, scoffs at Mr. Walker’s famous suggestion that public employees are the “haves” in society, noting that many earn less than $35,000 a year. And the law, says Ms. Lipska, an information systems technician with the state corrections system, has made things much worse. “My family is now on food stamps,” said Ms. Lipska, a mother of three who earns $18.62 an hour. … Continue reading You’re Paying Either Way

The anti-tax small-goverment teawads never do get this through their thick skulls: This is the most telling part of the article and helps show the damage really done by Act 10: Leah Lipska, the president of Local 1, scoffs at Mr. Walker’s famous suggestion that public employees are the “haves” in society, noting that many earn less than $35,000 a year. And the law, says Ms. Lipska, an information systems technician with the state corrections system, has made things much worse. “My family is now on food stamps,” said Ms. Lipska, a mother of three who earns $18.62 an hour. … Continue reading You’re Paying Either Way

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now