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By economic measure the US economy was in excellent shape when Biden turned over the White House to trump. When Biden left office, the unemployment rate was a low 4.1% and during Biden’s 4 years in office the average jobless rate was lower than any president since 1960.

By the time Biden left office inflation rate had fallen to just 2.9% down more than 2/3rds from its peak near the Federal Reserve’s Inflation goal. The nation’s GDP growth has been impressive, rising at a solid 3.1% rate. Biden added 16.6 million jobs during his presidency more than during any four year team of a previous president. But in Trump’s first four year term the nation lost 2.7 million jobs overall. The numbers just show that the Biden economy is way better than under Trump.

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While payroll schedules vary district to district, there is a general consensus that some districts allow their workers/teachers to “spread their 10-month salary over 12 months, while others don’t give any paycheck during the summer months, requiring teachers to budget, or in some cases, get a second job. Source

While teacher yearly salaries vary from state to state and from school to school (i.e. Charter vs. Public) the NEA found that the national average teacher salary is $63,645. However, teacher’ economic position has worsened overtime. Inflation has eroded most teachers’ salary increase…” “The national median household income is $80,610 according to the most recent Census data. But in the largest U.S. cities, a single adult needs at least $85,000 to sustain a comfortable lifestyle while a family of four requires nearly $200,000.” Source

“The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) notes that comparable professionals with similar education earn higher salaries. Nationally teachers earn 19% less than similarly skilled and educated professionals. This “teaching penalty” has increased significantly over the 20 plus years” Source

But after adjusting for inflation, the average of 50/30/20 budget rule where 50% of a households income is allocated to necessities, 30% to discretionary spending and 20% for long term, there is very little room for emergency funds, and even less for increased prices and an impending recession. Source

Research shows that “among all public elementary and secondary school teachers in the US 16% [or 1 in 6] worked non-school summer jobs…[and] about the same share of teachers 18% had second jobs during the school year.” “On average a teacher’s summer job earnings account for 7% of their total annual income…[and] Earnings from a second job during the school year make up an average of 9% of their income.” Source

Another important point to note is that 94% of Teachers spend their own money on their student’s behalf. And Teachers don’t just work the allotted 6-7 hours per day. Many teachers work longer than the contracted day. “While seven hours is the contracted workday, teachers must do significant amounts of work such as grading papers and revising lesson plans on their own time afterschool and on weekends. As classes become larger and school districts change curriculums, this becomes arduous. Teachers are not often compensated for before and after school bus duty and other similar responsibilities. Stipends for coaching or advising clubs are modest at best. Source

The workload that teachers have to handle often goes beyond the classroom, many of them unpaid. And with the option to spread their paycheck across all 12 months and pick up other jobs to fill their deficit, teachers deserve 3 months off because in reality, they work the amount of the three months of off time.

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It is a fact that Pete Hegseth said “Nobody was texting war plans and that’s all I have to say about that.” Source

Hegseth said “Nobody was texting war plans and that’s all I have to say about that.” Link Along with many other top officials in the White House including the President, claiming there was no classified information that was written in text, citing Trump’s words, there “was no classified information as I understand it”. The denial of the use of war plans is a matter of semantics in terms of the larger picture. War includes attacks, and attacks with the threat of a bomb, like what happened in Yemen, could instantly spark a war. Therefore we are a degree away from the use of the term ‘war plans’ which makes it not so far fetched. This is why. There were surprise attacks, planned attacks, that would have put American pilots in danger. “If this information—particularly the exact times American Aircraft were taking off for Yemen — had fallen into the wrong hands in that crucial two-hour period, American pilots and other American personnel could have been exposed to even greater danger than they ordinarily would face,” (source), and orders/plans of these steps that would need to be kept secret to uphold their safety. In the “United States, classified national security information is defined by “information created or received by an agency of the federal government or a government contractor that would damage national security if improperly released.” Regardless of Medium, classified information requires protection until it is formally declassified.”Source

Now looking back to the war plans on signal. “A war plan develops a concept to win a war militarily and politically; it is the detailed ways and means of an overarching strategy.” Source

In this signal messaging thread, the message reads “TEAM UPDATE: TIME NOW (1144et): Weather is FAVORABLE. Just CONFIRMED w/ CENTCOM we are GO for mission launch. 1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package) 1345: “Trigger Based” F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME) — also, Strike Drones Launch (MQ-9s). 1410: More F-18s LAUNCH (2nd strike package) 1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier “Trigger Based” targets). 1536: F-18 2nd Strike Starts — also, first sea-based Tomahawks launched. MORE TO FOLLOW (per timeline) We are currently clean on OPSEC. Godspeed to our Warriors.” Sent by Pete Hegseth in the Signal Chat of 19 members named Houthi PC small group including the names of (Michael Waltz, Scott B., Walker Barrett, Brian, Pete Hegseth, Jacob, Dan Katz, Joe Kent, S M, MAR, MAR, Mike Needham, John Radcliffe, Susie Wiles, TG (Assumed to be Tulsi Gabbard), JD Vance, Steve Witkoff and Alex Wong)” with disappearing messages put on for 1 week and then set to disappearing message time to 4 weeks by Mike Waltz. Source

This matter has also been assigned to a court judge and is going to go to court. One has to think that unclassified information would not be brought to lawsuit or court without substantial evidence of wrongdoing, but classified information used in a unprotected chat room would be subject to such matters. Judge James Bowsberg has been assigned to the lawsuit regarding Signalgate filed by American Oversight against Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabber, John Radcliffe and others saying that their messaging via signal is a violation of the Federal Records Act on 3/25. It alleges that by using the signal chain to talk about highly confidential classified military war plans that these officials violated the act. The Federal Records act is essentially “record-keeping laws designed to ensure the public has access to the workings of its government.” Source

This also directly contradicts the statements of the Trump administration and top officials who claim that there were no war plans disclosed in the Signal Chat. While the term ‘war plans’ may not be statements of exactness as war was not declared by Congress at this time, these were plans that were deemed too sensitive that leaking them could have put lives and the nation’s security in danger, and has been brought to the federal courts because it has been deemed as ‘war plans’ and a risk to our national security. These plans were also too sensitive that the officials apart of this Signal group chat would not hand over the messages to the Senate Oversight Committee in the hearing on March 25, 2025 By those measures it’s clear that these plans would have been classified in any other matter purely off of the standard of the surprise attack on Yemen and the use of weapons to roll out these attacks.

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Many argue that foster care would be a cruel alternative to abortion as the quality of life of the child decreases significantly through foster care. In the sense of even having a child there is a financial burden as well as pregnancy complications and uncertainties even before a child is brought into this world. “The mere act of having a child in a hospital can cost between $3,000 and $37,000 in the United States. Giving birth is dangerous. In the United States, pregnancy complications are the 6th most common cause of death for women between the ages of 20 and 34. And even before birth, there are costs to pregnancy. Mothers (especially teens and young mothers) are shunned and shamed for their pregnancy not just by community surrounding them but by advertisements on the subway. They’re also the risk of violent retribution from abusive partners and parents.” Source

But turning back to foster care itself – currently in the foster care system there are estimated to be 369,000 children. That is between 19.8 and 1.6 per 1,000 children per state, and an average of 5.1 for every thousand for the nation. It is also known fact that 1 in 17 kids entering foster care are children of color. These disparities often track closely with elevated rates of child poverty, [birth mothers from minority communities], substance abuse and neglect that are driven by factors for family separations. Within foster care, 53-80% of siblings are separated from each other within the system (causing trauma and mental health problems). Another fact is that fostering is exhausting and 30-50% of foster families decide to quit fostering each year. Case workers also have a turnover rate of 20-40% per year (resulting in disruption of foster children’s files, cases and attention sometimes resulting in abuse). Between 50 and 80% of children in foster care meet the criteria for mental health disorders. Data also shows that between 25-33% of youth and young adults experiencing homelessness had a history of foster care. 31-46% of young people experienced homelessness at least by age 26. Foster care is also vulnerable for human trafficking. The connection is that the children who ran away from the care of social services were reported to the Center for Missing and Exploited children, an average estimated 19% (75,240 children) were likely victims of child sex trafficking. Source

Thus the viability of foster homes is technically possible but is filled with trauma, disruption and inconsistencies which no child should have to endure.