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Is $40,000 enough for a minimum teacher salary?

Is $40,000 enough for a minimum teacher salary?

Yes

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No

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Yes

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Zaos Gonzolez
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Zaos Gonzolez

40K?!?!? Its more than enough. GORSH, I'd say just giving them a cheese sandwich is enough. If you send your children into the care of another, you do not love your children.

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No

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Al Cox
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Al Cox

Teachers have to go through so much just to get certifications and are now vilified more than ever. Its a thankless job that's never gotten enough credit (and pay) it deserves.

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Robin
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Robin

The teachers work way too hard and deal with way too much much for the pay they get. They teach the children of what is going to be our future leaders and I want them to have the best possible education.

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Miranda Bell
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Miranda Bell

I'm a teacher. And Missouri's retirement system takes 14.5% off the top without permission. We work hard but we are hardly left with a living wage.

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Catherine Collins
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Catherine Collins

In 1989 the min teacher's salary for the state of MO was 18,000. Using an inflation calculator it would be approximately 43,500 today. Many teachers work 2nd or Summer jobs to supplement their salaries.

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marks411war
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marks411war

Is this question really needing to be asked? Really ? This is what society is reduced to? Paying football and baseball and a host of other sports players HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS PER GAME OF 3 OR 4 HOURS duration all the while paying first responders and K thru 12 educators pennies... Really?

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Should the U.S. military step up operations in Venezuela or pull back?

Should the U.S. military step up operations in Venezuela or pull back?

Step it up

3

We should stop

1

Step it up

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Eric Smith
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Eric Smith

What the do on their soil, is their business, but once their drugs are out on boats in the big beautiful Gulf of America, blow them out of the water.

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Max
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Max

We have plenty of drugs as it is.

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We should stop

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Toasty
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Toasty

We're not the world's police and we executed those people in cold blood. If Venezuela wants to kill its citizens without proof and without a trial, then leave the US out of it.

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Max
Max

Venezuela is helping the companies that make Narcan.

What do you think of demolishing part of the White House to build a ballroom?

What do you think of demolishing part of the White House to build a ballroom?

It doesn't bother me

4

I don't like it

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It doesn't bother me

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Carol Backe
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Carol Backe

I think if it were Obama, nothing would be said about it. I think just because it’s President Trump there is the hate that some have for him. Not this much controversy when all the other changes were done by other presidents. None of this is costing taxpayers as it has in the past.

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Fred
Fred

Please provide an example of such an expansive change ... this ballroom is likely to turn out to be larger than the White House itself! I don't doubt we'll see a TRUMP sign on it before it is finished!

Max
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Max

Trump is improving the White House, and he is using private funding to do that.

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Fred
Fred

Right ... "private funding" in exchange for pardons and other favors. The more accurate description is BRIBES.

Kenneth Young
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Kenneth Young

Separation of the rich and poor is getting wider. I was never invited to watch a movie in the movie room just like I'll never be invited to any dances.....I think we'd be better off if they tore down the west wing

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Eric Smith
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Eric Smith

Big Beautiful White House

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I don't like it

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Chris Macy
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Chris Macy

STOP THIS MANIAC!!!

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Kelly Branstetter
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Kelly Branstetter

It's history, it's respect and honor, the ballroom was never approved and the drawings show it overshadowing the White House itself. Awful

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