{"id":995,"date":"2008-06-06T03:04:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T08:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=995"},"modified":"2008-06-06T03:04:42","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T08:04:42","slug":"blowing-the-lid-off-the-myth-of-the-underpaid-public-servant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"Blowing the Lid Off the Myth of the Underpaid Public Servant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of Commonwealth reports that the average teacher salary in the city of Boston is over $71,000 a year.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s $71,000 a year for a <strong>part-time<\/strong> job &#8211; this doesn&#8217;t take into account earnings during the summer, for example.<br \/>\nAnd check out <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/06\/02\/pf\/retirement\/vallejo.moneymag\/index.htm?cnn=yes\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> by Janice Revell, Money Magazine senior writer, who reports on the city of Vallejo, California&#8217;s decision to declare bankruptcy as a result of its staggering public pension debt.<br \/>\nAs Ms. Revell reports, Massachusetts is one of the three highest profile examples of similar problems, South Carolina and Pennsylvania being the other two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of Commonwealth reports that the average teacher salary in the city of Boston is over $71,000 a year. That&#8217;s $71,000 a year for a part-time job &#8211; this doesn&#8217;t take into account earnings during the summer, for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=995\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}