Season 2, Episode: 10: Educators' rai$ed hands 👋🏾 🙌🏾

About this episode

This episode discusses the financial struggles of North Carolina educators amidst budgetary challenges.

North Carolina's educators aren't furloughed like federal workers. But the way folks who work in our public schools are doing creative math in order to keep up with the cost of living, the insufficient funds in their paychecks kinda hit like a furlough. It's because state lawmakers won't pass a budget that even puts a salary increase on the table. Meet some of those educators in this edition of the "Closer to the People" podcast.

Topics covered

• education
• public schools
• salary increase
• North Carolina

Keywords

• cost of living
• budget
• salary
• lawmakers

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Closer to the People

Places: North Carolina's

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