Underpaid TeachersTop of Mind with Julie Rose • Season 1, Episode 1613, Segment 3
Jun 3, 2021 • 15m
On average, American teachers make 80 cents for every dollar that other college-educated professionals make, and this gap is only growing. Economist Sylvia Allegretto at the Economic Policy Institute is co-chair of the Center on Wage and Employment Dynamics at the University of California-Berkeley. She discusses why teachers aren’t making more and analyzes if this is really fair or not.