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Janresseger: Can We Hold Onto Our Values as We Struggle to Survive in the Trump-DeVos Holding Pattern?

I was dismayed recently when I sat down to read some excellent proposals for addressing child poverty in the United States.

Here are two alternative proposals from the National Academy of Sciences. Both are prescriptions for cutting our national child poverty rate in half within a decade. Each proposal would combine a different set of policy strategies; each combination of ingredients would achieve the same very laudable result:

“Increase the Earned Income Tax Credit along the phase-in and flat portions; convert the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit to a fully refundable tax credit and concentrate its benefits to families with children with the lowest incomes; increase the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by 35 percent…; and expand the supply of Section 8 Housing… Vouchers to supply affordable housing for 70 percent of eligible families.””

“Increase the Earned Income Tax Credit by 40 percent; convert the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit to a fully refundable tax credit and concentrate its benefits to families with children with the lowest incomes; replace the Child Tax Credit with a monthly child allowance of $225 per month…; establish a new child support assurance program that provides a minimum payment of $100 per month per child; increase the federal minimum wage to $10.25 per hour… and index it to inflation; and restore program eligibility for non-qualified legal immigrants for Medicaid, SNAP… TANF…, SSI, and other benefits.”

I am sure that, if the people at the National Academy of Sciences who wrote the report say so, either of these prescriptions on its own would cut child poverty in half within the decade. My despair when I look at these plans, however, is that today there is an utter absence of national political will to ensure that Congress would move on any one of the specifics, let alone any combination of them.

Nor do I have any hope that even well-informed people on the street could possibly get a handle on what all these programs are and how they would work together to help our children. We need leaders who can help us understand what each of these programs is, how they would fit together, and—most important—why they matter. And for those of us who care about the future of education, we need to be reminded that child poverty—not failing public schools—is what threatens the future of too many of our children.

Our collective ignorance about what such programs are and how they would help our children is particularly worrisome today, because the best we can look for is to be trapped in a holding pattern right now. It is dangerous that we are forgetting the very tools that someday may help us address child poverty. We obligated today merely to be grateful when things are not quickly getting worse.

In the area of K-12 public education—which directly affects 50 million of our children—President Trump’s education budget proposal flat-funds Title I and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. These are the huge formula programs that help schools serve children in poverty and children with disabilities. The President’s proposed budget also flat-funds Head Start. For two years now, Congress has agreed to maintain these programs, and there is some assurance Congress will continue to do so. (House Democrats recently proposed adding $4.4 billion to the FY 2020 federal budget for education, including an increase in Title I, although any House education budget is unlikely to be approved by the Republican-dominated Senate.) We must find ourselves grateful for the preservation of the status quo, even though all this flat-funding means the programs are falling behind in inflation-adjusted dollars.

On Sunday, the Washington Post‘s Laura Meckler described today’s holding-pattern in stark terms. What she portrays is a crisis in leadership and values, not merely a paucity of programs. In a profile about Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Meckler assures us that DeVos has emerged as among the few survivors in Trump’s Cabinet: “(‘T)he president shows no signs of asking her to resign, reflecting in part his lack of interest in the issue of education and the department responsible for it… This account of DeVos’s endurance in the Education Department’s top job is based on interviews with eight people with direct knowledge of the secretary’s relationship with the president and with an understanding of the inner workings of the White House and education agency… DeVos has benefited from Trump’s lack of interest in education, officials say… Also bolstering DeVos’s standing: She hasn’t had a single personal scandal. She’s a billionaire and travels by private plane, but she pays for it herself. She donates her salary to charity. Even detractors say that in person, DeVos is pleasant and easy to be around.”

We have a President who doesn’t care about education, and we can extrapolate: a President who doesn’t care about children. Fortunately Congress has refused to go along with an ideological agenda that features education as an exercise in individual freedom, privatization, and marketplace choice. We have to be grateful for the holding pattern even as we worry about the plight of poor children.

At the same time those of us concerned about a crisis in urban public schools also know that school achievement is affected by factors in the lives of children outside school. The National Education Policy Center’s Kevin Welner and researcher Julia Daniel delineate many of the primary challenges for children that threaten their engagement with school: “(W)e need to step back and confront an unpleasant truth about school improvement. A large body of research teaches us that the opportunity gaps that drive achievement gaps are mainly attributable to factors outside our schools: concentrated poverty, discrimination, disinvestment, and racially disparate access to a variety of resources and employment opportunities… Research finds that school itself has much less of an impact on student achievement than out-of-school factors such as poverty. While schools are important… policymakers repeatedly overestimate their capacity to overcome the deeply detrimental effects of poverty and racism… (S)tudents in many… communities are still rocked by housing insecurity, food insecurity, their parents’ employment insecurity, immigration anxieties, neighborhood violence and safety, and other hassles and dangers that can come with being a low-income person of color in today’s United States.”

These are, of course, the problems the National Academy of Sciences suggests we can address with either of their prescribed mixtures of policy investments. Nobody in this holding pattern of Trump Times, however, has been able to frame poignantly our public responsibility for addressing the needs of what First Focus identifies as 13 million children living in poverty today in the United States. Good leadership is desperately needed to develop the political will in a society barely coping with an executive branch gone mad. As the Mueller report and its implications wash over us, at a time when our president foments hatred at the southern border, and in a society driven more and more by individualism and entrepreneurship, can we recover some kind of commitment to the public good and our collective obligation to our society’s children?

Here are some values we ought to be thinking about.

The late Benjamin Barber describes today’s realities for children and their schools—a reality that has grown more serious than it was when he wrote these words in 1998: “In many municipalities, schools have become the sole surviving public institutions and consequently have been burdened with responsibilities far beyond traditional schooling. Schools are now medical clinics, counseling centers, vocational training institutes, police/security outposts, drug rehabilitation clinics, special education centers, and city shelters… Among the costs of public schools that are most burdensome are those that go for special education, discipline, and special services to children who would simply be expelled from (or never admitted into) private and parochial schools or would be turned over to the appropriate social service agencies (which themselves are no longer funded in many cities.) It is the glory and the burden of public schools that they cater to all of our children, whether delinquent or obedient, drug damaged or clean, brilliant or handicapped, privileged or scarred. That is what makes them public schools.” (“Education for Democracy,” in A Passion for Democracy: American Essays, pp. 226-227)

John Dewey names the principle that has traditionally grounded our society’s commitment to the well being of our children and their public education: “What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children… Only by being true to the full growth of all the individuals who make it up, can society by any chance be true to itself.” (The School and Society, 1899, p. 1)

Over the past year, there was one public outcry on behalf of children that was loud enough to overcome the inertia of just trying to hold on for two more years. Thank you teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arizona, Denver, Los Angeles, and Oakland for your walkouts—state by state and district by district. You who spend your days in our public schools helped us see the damage being imposed on children by huge classes along with the absence of counselors, school nurses, social workers and librarians. And you reminded citizens in many states that their taxes are needed as a public obligation to support their children and to keep a well-qualified and experienced staff of teachers in the public schools that serve their children.

There was also one simple public protest that may point to a strategy for changing the conversation. Before the 2018 election for governor of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools supplied thousands of parents statewide with very simple yard signs that said: “I Love My Public Schools and I Vote.” Without sinking into the policy weeds, the Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools very plainly confronted and replaced Scott Walker’s years-long agenda to privatize and otherwise undermine public schools. Perhaps a wave of yard signs helped reframe the agenda: Tony Evers, the state school superintendent, defeated Walker and now serves as Wisconsin’s governor.

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Part 3: Trump’s Other Wall

Trump has been president for less than a month so we don’t have quite the same amount of information to go on as we did with Bush and Obama. Because his presidency is in its infancy, there isn’t much to look at besides his cabinet (as far as this series is concerned), but that’s okay because the entire point of this 3 part series (part 1, part 2a, part 2b) has been to eventually lead up to this moment! Now we have the tools to understand what’s happening in the Senate and the historical context of the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration, which means we’re ready to look at present-day events to see if Trump really is facing “unpresidented” obstruction.

The Claims:

“But the most notable difference already has taken place: it is once again patriotic to obstruct the workings of government! Parliamentarians unite!” - op-ed in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“Democratic senators plan to aggressively target eight of Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees in the coming weeks and are pushing to stretch their confirmation votes into March — an unprecedented break with Senate tradition.” - Washington Post

“Senate Democrats Obstruct President Trump’s Nominees” - (terrifyingly) The White House

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait?

There is one thing that is actually true - it is taking Trump longer than usual to assemble his cabinet, for a newly elected president [1, 2]. Currently, it’s taking an average of 16 days for his nominees to move from their committee meetings to the Senate floor, which is indeed longer than the 7 days it took for Bush’s first cabinet or the 11 days it took for Obama’s first cabinet [1].

But there are some things that are different about Trump and his cabinet nominees that neither Bush nor Obama faced:

1) Did He Really Win?

Trump didn’t win the popular vote - he only received 45.96% of the votes, compared to Clinton’s 48% [3, 4]. He did win the Electoral College, but why the Electoral College is (considered by some to be) an antiquated hold-over of a bygone era is a post for another time [3, 4].

There has been one other president in recent history that has won via the Electoral College but lost the popular vote: George W. Bush; he received 47.87% of the votes, while Gore received 48.38% [3]. There have only been 5 presidents in the history of the United States that lost the popular vote, including Bush and Trump [3].

Bush lost the popular vote by a margin of 0.51% and Trump lost by a margin of 2.04%, which doesn’t seem like a huge deal but that small percentage represents millions of people [3, 4].

2) The Apprentice Has a Higher Approval Rating Than the President*

*I have never watched the Apprentice in my life and I have no idea if this is factual

Trump has the lowest approval rating for a new president since at least Eisenhower [5]. Bush, even after not winning the popular vote, held an approval rating of 59% in February 2001, while Obama’s initial approval rating was 64%. Trump has hovered in the 40s, with an average of 44% [5].

I’m not a pollster or avid fan of polling to begin with (you can ask my friends and they will happily tell you that I vocally declare my dislike for polls pretty much every time they are mentioned), but there is evidence that approval ratings do matter for presidents and legislative success [6, 7].

3) The Clumsy Cabinet

I won’t mince words here: Trump’s cabinet nominees are almost universally unqualified for the positions they have been tapped for. If you’ve read the news or been on any social media site since Trump’s inauguration, you have likely heard that his cabinet is full of billionaires that might have business conflicts, people that have minimal government experience and people that don’t have the expertise necessary to run the department they’ve been nominated for but that’s not what I’m going to talk about because many of those things can apparently be contested regardless of how much evidence one presents.

Instead, I’ll put forth that many of his cabinet nominees are unqualified simply because they, their businesses, or their statements stand in direct opposition to the goals of the department they are hopeful to direct.

Environmental Protection Agency, mission statement: “to protect human health and the environment.”

Scott Pruitt, EPA Administrator (awaiting Senate floor) • The EPA accomplishes their mission by developing and enforcing regulations, giving grants, studying environmental issues, and educating people about the environment [8]. Scott Pruitt, Trump’s nominee to head the EPA and current Attorney General in Oklahoma, has sued the EPA 14 times [9, 10, 11]. Many of these lawsuits are being fought over perceived overreach by the EPA, with the complainants believing that the EPA has acted outside of its authority [10, 12]. Also, many of the complainants in these lawsuits are companies that have donated to Pruitt directly and would be forced to make potentially costly changes to waste disposal methods or renovations to facilities if EPA regulations were enforced [9, 10, 13]. When asked, Pruitt has not explicitly stated that he would recuse himself from any currently pending litigation, even if appointed as head of the EPA, instead saying he would follow the recommendations of his ethics committee [11]. Pruitt, while not an out-and-out climate change denier, has also said that “the degree and extent of human impact and what should be done about [climate change] are subject to continuing debate and dialogue” [10, 11, 12]. Addressing and reducing the effects of climate change are one of the EPA’s primary goals [31].

Department of Education, mission statement: “to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.”

Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education (has been confirmed) • Betsy DeVos, Education Secretary confirmee, is a well-established champion of tax credits for parents to send their children to private/religious schools and charter schools, publicly-funded but privately-operated schools that can make impactful changes in communities, but can also lack oversight, decrease performance and drain funding from already struggling districts, but she hasn’t been a vocal advocate for public education [14, 15]. She was asked during her committee hearing if she could commit to not working to privatize public schools or cutting public education funding and she refused to give the requested yes or no answer, providing a vague non-answer instead [14]. She has also stated that she would support Trump if he were to repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act and she has made statements that it should up to individual states how they choose to comply with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), a federal law (which isn’t, you know, how that works)[14]. While it may be important for parents to have access to choices regarding their child’s education, an Education Secretary that doesn’t seem interested in advocating for public education as strongly as she has lobbied for privatized education is likely at odds with department goals [14, 15, 16].

Department of Labor, mission statement: “To foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners, job seekers, and retirees of the United States; improve working conditions; advance opportunities for profitable employment; and assure work-related benefits and rights.”

Andy Puzder, Secretary of Labor nominee (awaiting committee meeting) • Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants (Carl’s Jr. and Hardees) and Secretary of Labor nominee, is critical of minimum wage increases and has a history of opposition to overtime rules and paid-leave policies, as well [9, 17, 19]. He is supportive of increased automation in the fast food industry, which is frequently cited as a threat to actual humans in the labor force [17, 18]. CKE has been the target of lawsuits alleging underpayment and has had to make back payments to employees [17, 19, 20]. Puzder has a history of undermining or explicitly working against the core values of the Labor Department, especially “promot[ing]... the welfare of the wage earner”,”improv[ing] working conditions,” and “assur[ing] work-related benefits and rights” [9, 17, 20, 21].

Department of State, mission statement: “The Department's mission is to shape and sustain a peaceful, prosperous, just, and democratic world and foster conditions for stability and progress for the benefit of the American people and people everywhere. This mission is shared with the USAID, ensuring we have a common path forward in partnership as we invest in the shared security and prosperity that will ultimately better prepare us for the challenges of tomorrow.”

Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State (has been confirmed) • Tillerson, confirmed Secretary of State, has a history of being critical of US sanctions against Russia when they stood in the way of deals brokered between Russia and the company he was CEO of before becoming Secretary of State - ExxonMobil [9, 22]. Tillerson also has an “unusually copacetic relationship with Vladimir Putin” [9]. And yes, I do mean the same Russia that is under investigation for possibly interfering in our election. The same Russia accused of war crimes in Syria by the UN. It may be difficult to tell from the mission statement alone, but the State Department oversees the international relations of the United States and also represents the United States at the UN [24]. To that end, I also mean the same Russia that is making the situation in Syria worse, resulting in a flood of Syrian refugees seeking asylum - indeed the same Syrian refugees the State Department has been trying to help (Trump’s Travel Ban notwithstanding)[9, 23, 25].

Other Nominees • Ben Carson, Department of Housing and Urban Development nominee, has had to walk back from statements he has made in the past regarding public assistance programs and fair housing initiatives, statements that were at odds with one of HUD’s primary goals - to provide quality rental homes and oversee public housing assistance programs [26, 27, 28].

And I realize that this one won’t win me any favors from Trump supporters or critics of the ACA, but Tom Price, Secretary of Health and Human Services nominees, has been a vocal opponent of the Affordable Care Act [9, 29]. HHS’s mission statement is “to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans” and I would argue that stripping the access to health insurance that millions of Americans have through the Affordable Care Act is directly at odds with that mission statement (but if you’re not sold by that argument (I don’t blame you, but I had to try) his sweetheart deals may give you pause)[9, 29, 30].

And my personal favorite, Rick Perry, Department of Energy nominee, once advocated for the very same department he has now been tapped to lead to be eliminated (or he would have, if he could have remembered it)[32].

4) It’s the Principle of the Thing

Even if most of Trump’s cabinet members were not directly opposed to the goals of the departments they may one day one run, there have still been huge ethical hurdles for some candidates… mostly that they had hearings scheduled before the OGE had finished their ethics investigations [33, 34, 35]. The Office of Government Ethics is responsible for the investigations that prevent and resolve conflicts of interest, and with so many of Trump’s nominees being executives and philanthropists-cum-lobbyists, there are quite a lot of conflicts of interest, meaning an ethics investigation is highly important [33, 36].

The Unprecedented Obstruction?

As we’ve looked at with both the Bush and Obama administrations, maybe Senate Democrat’s BAD! obstruction isn’t actually all that novel. And maybe the obstruction is warranted.

Trump has a historically low approval rating and millions of people contest his win of the presidency and those millions of people are upset, which means that Democratic and Republican senators alike are receiving calls, letters, and faxes at an exhausting rate, asking them to either hold these unqualified nominees to task (or, for Republicans, at least reconsider casting their vote in favor) [38, 39, 40]. The boycotting and delaying of committee hearings has been done before, too - by Republicans. The debates and extended time on the floor has been a tactic used by both parties in recent presidencies, as previous posts have well covered. And Trump has a long way to go before he hits the average number of days it took to confirm Obama’s second cabinet (34 days)(and Obama’s approval ratings during the beginning of his second term are much closer to Trump’s approval ratings now)[1, 41].

Democratic senators throwing a wrench into the system may actually just be them doing their job. And Republican Senators calling for Senate Dems to ease up and just let cabinet nominees through may not actually be doing their’s, especially if there are ethical concerns or conflicts of interest that still need to be divested.

Oh, and those two fun vocabulary words from my last post?

kleptocracy (n, klep·toc·ra·cy) - government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed

kakistocracy (n, kak·is·toc·ra·cy) - government by the worst people

Navigation: Part 1 - Part 2a - Part 2b - Part 3 (this!)

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Yx1i6xEgAZCKg2-moEnqv5lO_9gKg3XqnVcminrll6E/edit#gid=0

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/20/donald-trump-will-start-his-presidency-with-the-smallest-confirmed-cabinet-in-decades/?utm_term=.a9b9d5fa2c25

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elections_in_which_the_winner_lost_the_popular_vote

[4] http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president

[5] http://www.gallup.com/poll/203198/presidential-approval-ratings-donald-trump.aspx

[6] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-won-despite-being-unpopular-so-can-he-govern-that-way/

[7] https://hbr.org/2017/02/trumps-low-approval-numbers-matter-heres-why

[8] https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/our-mission-and-what-we-do

[9] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/trumps-appointees-conflicts-of-interest-a-crib-sheet/512711/

[10] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/12/07/trump-names-scott-pruitt-oklahoma-attorney-general-suing-epa-on-climate-change-to-head-the-epa/?utm_term=.a9d177ee3402

[11] http://www.npr.org/2017/01/18/510472412/epa-nominee-scott-pruitt-acknowledges-existence-of-climate-change

[12] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/07/trump-scott-pruitt-environmental-protection-agency

[13] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/14/us/scott-pruitt-trump-epa-pick.html?_r=1&mtrref=www.theatlantic.com&gwh=9EA39F71D3681CE53B9387328E4BB687&gwt=pay

[14] http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/betsy-devos-education-public-schools-233720

[15] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/betsy-devos-trumps-education-pick-has-steered-money-from-public-schools.html

[16] https://www2.ed.gov/about/landing.jhtml

[17] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/politics/andrew-puzder-labor-secretary-trump.html

[18] http://www.businessinsider.com/self-service-kiosks-are-replacing-workers-2016-5

[19] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/andrew-puzder-donald-trumps-labor-secretary-pick/

[20] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/president-trumps-missing-labor-secretary/515655/

[21] https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/mission

[22] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jan/12/rex-tillerson/tillerson-misleads-russian-sanctions-opposition/

[23] https://www.state.gov/s/d/rm/index.htm#mission

[24] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_State

[25] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11856922/Russia-refuses-to-help-Syrian-refugees.html

[26] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/politics/ben-carsons-hud-housing-nominee-hearing.html

[27] http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-carson-hud-20170112-story.html

[28] https://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/about/mission

[29] http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/tom-price-health-secretary-confirmation-hearing-233796

[30] https://www.hhs.gov/about/

[31] https://www.epa.gov/climatechange/what-epa-doing-about-climate-change

[32] http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-perry-20161213-story.html

[33] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ethics-official-warns-against-confirmations-before-reviews-are-complete/2017/01/07/e85a97ee-d348-11e6-9cb0-54ab630851e8_story.html?utm_term=.d2ad4925e7d6

[34] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/08/trump-cabinet-nominees-ethics-review-conflict-of-interest

[35] http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/313175-ethics-office-accuses-gop-of-rushing-trump-cabinet-confirmations

[36] https://www.oge.gov/web/oge.nsf/Mission%20and%20Responsibilities

[37] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/us/politics/republicans-block-vote-on-nominee-to-lead-epa.html

[38] http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/betsy-devos-confirmation-senate-phone-lines-234216

[39] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/is-betsy-devos-going-down/515346/

[40] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/more-than-1100-law-school-professors-nationwide-oppose-sessionss-nomination-as-attorney-general/2017/01/03/dbf55750-d1cc-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html?utm_term=.3c4f7dae6502

[41] http://www.gallup.com/poll/116479/barack-obama-presidential-job-approval.aspx

#obstruction #republican #democrat #senate #trump #epa #education #labor #ethics

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Peter’s Choice

I asked my student why he voted for Trump. The answer was thoughtful, smart, and terrifying.

RICK PERLSTEIN JAN/FEB 2017 ISSUE

Mike McQuade

This past October, I taught a weeklong seminar on the history of conservatism to honors students from around the state of Oklahoma. In five long days, my nine very engaged students and I got to know each other fairly well. Six were African American women. Then there was a middle-aged white single mother, a white kid who looked like any other corn-fed Oklahoma boy and identified himself as “queer,” and the one straight white male. I’ll call him Peter.

Peter is 21 and comes from a town of about 3,000 souls. It’s 85 percent white, according to the 2010 census, and 1.2 percent African American—which would make for about 34 black folks. “Most people live around the poverty line,” Peter told the class, and hunting is as much a sport as a way to put food on the table.

Peter was one of the brightest students in the class, and certainly the sweetest. He liked to wear overalls to school—and on the last day, in a gentle tweak of the instructor, a red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap. A devout evangelical, he’d preferred former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at the start of the primary season, but was now behind Donald Trump.

One day the students spent three hours drafting essays about the themes we’d talked about in class. I invited them to continue writing that night so the next morning we could discuss one of their pieces in detail. I picked Peter’s because it was extraordinary. In only eight hours he’d churned out eight pages, eloquent and sharp.

When I asked him if I could discuss his essay in this article, he replied, “That sounds fine with me. If any of my work can be used to help the country with its political turmoil, I say go for it!” Then he sent me a new version with typos corrected and a postelection postscript: “My wishful hope is that my compatriots will have their tempers settled by Trump’s election, and that maybe both sides can learn from the Obama and Trump administrations in order to understand how both sides feel. Then maybe we can start electing more moderate people, like John Kasich and Jim Webb, who can find reasonable commonality on both sides and make government work.” Did I mention he was sweet?

When he read the piece aloud in class that afternoon in October, the class was riveted. Several of the black women said it was the first time they’d heard a Trump supporter clearly set forth what he believed and why. (Though, defying stereotypes, one of these women—an aspiring cop—was also planning to vote for Trump.)

Peter’s essay took off from the main class reading, Corey Robin’s The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin. Its central argument is that conservative movements across history are united in their devotion to the maintenance of received social hierarchy. Peter, whose essay was titled “Plight of the Redneck,” had a hard time seeing how that applied to the people he knew. “These people are scraping the bottom of the barrel, and they, seemingly, have nothing to benefit from maintaining the system of order that keeps them at the bottom."

“We all live out in the wilderness, either in the middle of a forest or on a farm,” he wrote. “Some people cannot leave their homes during times of unfortunate weather. Many still dry clothes by hanging them on wires with clothespins outside. These people are nowhere near the top, or even the middle, of any hierarchy. These people are scraping the bottom of the barrel, and they, seemingly, have nothing to benefit from maintaining the system of order that keeps them at the bottom.” His county ended up going about 70 percent for Trump.

Concerning race, Peter wrote, “In Oklahoma, besides Native Americans, there have traditionally been very few minorities. Few blacks have ever lived near the town that I am from…Even in my generation, despite there being a little more diversity, there was no racism, nor was there a reason for racism to exist.” His town’s 34 or so black people might beg to differ, of course; white people’s blindness to racism in their midst is an American tradition. As one of the African American students in the class—I’ll call her Karen—put it, whites in her town see “racism as nonexistent unless they witness it firsthand. And then it almost has to be over the top—undeniable acts of violence like hate crimes or cross burnings on front lawns—before they would acknowledge it as such.” But it’s relevant to the story I’m telling that I’m certain Peter isn’t individually, deliberately racist, and that Karen agrees.

Still, Peter’s thinking might help us frame a central debate on the left about what to make of Trump’s victory. Is it, in the main, a recrudescence of bigotry on American soil—a reactionary scream against a nation less white by the year? Or is it more properly understood as an economically grounded response to the privations that neoliberalism has wracked upon the heartland?

Peter knows where he stands. He remembers multiple factories and small businesses “shutting down or laying off. Next thing you know, half of downtown” in the bigger city eight miles away “became vacant storefronts.” Given that experience, he has concluded, “for those people who have no political voice and come from states that do not matter, the best thing they can do is try to send in a wrecking ball to disrupt the system.” When Peter finished with that last line, there was a slight gasp from someone in the class—then silence, then applause. They felt like they got it.

I was also riveted by Peter’s account, convinced it might be useful as a counterbalance to glib liberal dismissals of the role of economic decline in building Trumpland. Then I did some research. According to the 2010 census, the median household income in Peter’s county is a little more than $45,000. By comparison, Detroit’s is about $27,000 and Chicago’s (with a higher cost of living) is just under $49,000. The poverty rate is 17.5 percent in the county and 7.6 percent in Peter’s little town, compared with Chicago’s 22.7 percent. The unemployment rate has hovered around 4 percent.

The town isn’t rich, to be sure. But it’s also not on the “bottom.” Oklahoma on the whole has been rather dynamic economically: Real GDP growth was 2.8 percent in 2014—down from 4.3 percent in 2013, but well above the 2.2 percent nationally. The same was true of other Trump bastions like Texas (5.2 percent growth) and West Virginia (5.1 percent).

Peter, though, perceives the region’s economic history as a simple tale of desolation and disappointment. “Everyone around was poor, including the churches,” he wrote, “and charities were nowhere near (this wasn’t a city, after all), so more people had to use some sort of government assistance. Taxes went up [as] the help became more widespread."

He was just calling it like he saw it. But it’s striking how much a bright, inquisitive, public-spirited guy can take for granted that just is not so. Oklahoma’s top marginal income tax rate was cut by a quarter point to 5 percent in 2016, the same year lawmakers hurt the working poor by slashing the earned-income tax credit. On the "tax burden” index used by the website WalletHub, Oklahoma’s is the 45th lowest, with rock-bottom property taxes and a mere 4.5 percent sales tax. (On Election Day, Oklahomans voted down a 1-point sales tax increase meant to raise teacher pay, which is 49th in the nation.).

As for government assistance, Oklahoma spends less than 10 percent of its welfare budget on cash assistance. The most a single-parent family of three can get is $292 a month—that’s 18 percent of the federal poverty line. Only 2,469 of the more than 370,000 Oklahomans aged 18 to 64 who live in poverty get this aid. And the state’s Medicaid eligibility is one of the stingiest in the nation, covering only adults with dependent children and incomes below 42 percent of the poverty level—around $8,500 for a family of three.

But while Peter’s analysis is at odds with much of the data, his overall story does fit a national pattern. Trump voters report experiencing greater-than-average levels of economic anxiety, even though they tend have better-than-average incomes. And they are inclined to blame economic instability on the federal government—even, sometimes, when it flows from private corporations. Peter wrote about the sense of salvation his neighbors felt when a Walmart came to town: “Now there were enough jobs, even part-time jobs…But Walmart constantly got attacked by unions nationally and with federal regulations; someone lost their job, or their job became part-time."

It’s worth noting that if the largest retail corporation in the world has been conspicuously harmed by unions and regulations of late, it doesn’t show in its profits, which were $121 billion in 2016. And of course, Walmart historically has had a far greater role in shuttering small-town Main Streets than in revitalizing them. But Peter’s neighbors see no reason to resent it for that. He writes, "The majority of the people do not blame the company for their loss because they realize that businesses [are about] making money, and that if they had a business of their own, they would do the same thing."

It’s not fair to beat up on a sweet 21-year-old for getting facts wrong—especially if, as is likely, these were the only facts he was told. Indeed, teaching the class, I was amazed how even the most liberal students took for granted certain dubious narratives in which they (and much of the rest of the country) were marinated all year long, like the notion that Hillary Clinton was extravagantly corrupt. "After continually losing on the economic side,” he wrote, “one of the few things that you can retain is your identity."

Feelings can’t be fact-checked, and in the end, feelings were what Peter’s eloquent essay came down to—what it feels like to belong, and what it feels like to be culturally dispossessed. "After continually losing on the economic side,” he wrote, “one of the few things that you can retain is your identity. What it means, to you, to be an American, your somewhat self-sufficient and isolated way of life, and your Christian faith and values. Your identity and heritage is the very last thing you can cling to…Abortion laws and gay marriage are the two most recent upsets. The vast majority of the state of Oklahoma has opposed both of the issues, and social values cannot be forced by the government."

On these facts he is correct: In a 2015 poll, 68 percent of Oklahomans called themselves "pro-life,” and only 30 percent supported marriage equality. Until 2016 there were only a handful of abortion providers in the entire state, and the first new clinic to open in 40 years guards its entrance with a metal detector.

Peter thinks he’s not a reactionary. Since that sounds like an insult, I’d like to think so, too. But in writing this piece, I did notice a line in his essay that I had glided over during my first two readings, maybe because I liked him too much to want to be scared by him. “One need only look to the Civil War and the lasting legacies of Reconstruction through to today’s current racism and race issues to see what happens when the federal government forces its morals on dissenting parts of the country.” The last time I read that, I shuddered. So I emailed Peter. “I say the intrusions were worth it to end slavery and turn blacks into full citizens,” I wrote. “A lot of liberals, even those most disposed to having an open mind to understanding the grievances of people like you and yours, will have a hard time with [your words]."

Peter’s answer was striking. He first objected (politely!) to what he saw as the damning implication behind my observation. Slavery and Reconstruction? "I was using it as an example of government intrusion and how violent and negative the results can be when the government tries to tell people how to think. I take it you saw it in terms of race in politics. The way we look at the same thing shows how big the difference is between our two groups."

To him, focusing on race was "an attention-grabbing tool that politicians use to their advantage,” one that “really just annoys and angers conservatives more than anything, because it is usually a straw man attack.” He compared it to what “has happened with this election: everyone who votes for Trump must be racist and sexist, and there’s no possible way that anyone could oppose Hillary unless it’s because they’re sexist. Accusing racism or sexism eliminates the possibility of an honest discussion about politics."

He asked me to imagine "being one of those rednecks under the poverty line, living in a camper trailer on your grandpa’s land, eating about one full meal a day, yet being accused by Black Lives Matter that you are benefiting from white privilege and your life is somehow much better than theirs."

And that’s when I wanted to meet him halfway: Maybe we could talk about the people in Chicago working for poverty wages and being told by Trump supporters that they were lazy. Or the guy with the tamale cart in front of my grocery store—always in front of my grocery store, morning, noon, and night—who with so much as a traffic violation might find himself among the millions whom Trump intends to immediately deport.

I wanted to meet him halfway, until he started talking about history.

"The reason I used the Civil War and Reconstruction is because it isn’t a secret that Reconstruction failed,” Peter wrote. “It failed and left the South in an extreme poverty that it still hasn’t recovered from.” And besides, “slavery was expensive and the Industrial Revolution was about to happen. Maybe if there had been no war, slavery would have faded peacefully."

As a historian, I found this remarkable, since it was precisely what all American schoolchildren learned about slavery and Reconstruction for much of the 20th century. Or rather, they did until the civil rights era, when serious scholarship dismantled this narrative, piece by piece. But not, apparently, in Peter’s world. "Until urban liberals move to the rural South and live there for probably a decade or more,” he concluded, “there’s no way to fully appreciate the view."

This was where he left me plumb at a loss. Liberals must listen to and understand Trump supporters. But what you end up understanding from even the sweetest among them still might chill you to the bone.

Read Peter’s full essay at motherjones.com/oklahoma.

#literally crying #this level of ignorance is actually terrifying #racism #trump supporters #million woman march #trump #donald trump

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5 cool tax moves to make this hot August

August is here, but few of us have put out the welcome mat. The eighth month of the year tends to be one of the hottest of the year. Most of the summer's fun events have come and gone. And school is about to start.

OK, that last point is a positive for many parents who are running out of patience with the kids being underfoot all the time.

Those moms, dads and all other shoppers in 13 states at least will get some state sales tax holidays to make this muggy month a bit more tolerable. Those tax-free events are among the five cool tax moves to make in this hot month of August.

1. Take advantage of no-tax shopping. Tax holidays are bad tax policy. They don't bring new shoppers into stores, but rather prompt those who planned to buy anyway to shift their shopping to the tax-free period.

Still, folks seem to like the holidays and this year there were/are 16 of them. Thirteen take place during or start on the first weekend of August, which in many instances includes Friday as part of the weekend.

Since classes are about to start, most of these events are advertised as back-to-school shopping opportunities. That includes not only the standard notebooks and pencils, but also in some place computers.

You can find details and links to the states' officials lists of tax-free eligible items in my comprehensive (and color-coded!) tax holiday 2019 post, but here's a quick look at the states with their upcoming sales tax holiday dates in parentheses:

Arkansas (Aug. 3-4)

Maryland (Aug. 9-17)

Oklahoma (Aug. 2-4)

Connecticut (Aug. 18-24)

Massachusetts (Aug. 17-18)

South Carolina (Aug. 2-4)

Florida (Aug. 2-6)

Missouri (Aug. 2-4)

Texas (Aug. 9-11)

Iowa (Aug. 2-3)

New Mexico (Aug. 2-4)

Virginia (Aug. 2-4)

Ohio (Aug. 2-4)

2. Shop for educational tax help. Don't limit your back-to-school shopping to retail locations. Do your homework on the many ways that your dear old Uncle Sam can help cover educational costs, from Kindergarten through high school and on to college.

One of the best bargains is a 529 plan. The tax benefits for these state-administered savings accounts include, among other things, tax-free account growth, no tax on distributions used to pay allowable education costs (which were expanded by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) and in some states a deduction on those state returns.

Every state offers at least one 529 and your choice isn't limited to just those offered within your state's borders. So shop around for a 529 that fits your student's and family's needs.

3. Use your medical FSA funds for school-related costs. A flexible spending account, or FSA, is a popular employer-provided workplace benefit. You contribute to an FSA via paycheck contributions that are made before taxes are calculated on your income, lowering your overall tax bill.

The current maximum FSA contribution amount, which you selected last fall when you signed up for 2019 benefits, is $2,700. You then use FSA money to pay or get as reimbursement for your out-of-pocket expenditures on qualified medical expenses.

If you maxed out, you want to make sure you use as much of the FSA money as possible. If you don't, it goes back to your employer.

One of those allowable and reimbursable expenses is vaccinations that most schools and many colleges require students to get before enrolling. If you're unsure of the requirements where you live, check out the Centers for Disease Control's interactive map of school vaccination requirements and exemptions.

And if you have to pay a portion of the immunization shots' costs, use your FSA money.

4. Collect camp receipts. A dependent-care FSA is another popular employee benefit. Like their medical counterparts, these tax-favored accounts let you save pretax money to cover child care.

Day camps count as child care for older children. If this summer you enrolled your youngsters in a day camp so they would be supervised while you (and your spouse, if you're married) worked, you can use dependent care FSA money to cover the costs.

Quick reminder: Day camp only costs qualify. Sleep-away camp costs aren't eligible.

No care FSA? No problem. Look into claiming the child and dependent care tax credit. Day camp expenses can be counted toward figuring this tax break.

There is a limit on both expenses and the percentage of them that can used to figure the credit. Bottom line is that the maximum child care credit is $1,050 for care of one child or $2,100 for costs related to two or more youngsters. While that might not seem like much, it is at least a tax credit, which offers a dollar-for-dollar reduction of any tax you owe.

5. Alert the health marketplace of any changes. Yes, a court challenge of the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, is progressing. But until there if final legal word, which likely eventually will come from the Supreme Court, the law remains in effect.

So does the tax help, the Premium Tax Credit (PTC), that's available to eligible low- and moderate-income individuals and families to help pay for medical insurance obtained through the healthcare marketplace at HealthCare.gov.

It's a refundable tax credit, which means you could get money back if you don't owe any tax.

If eligible, you can claim the PTC when you file your annual return. Most people, however, receive advance PTC payments.

Certain changes to your household, income or family size may affect your tax credit. Let the marketplace know of these changes ASAP so you're not hit with a surprise when it comes to your tax refund or the amount of tax you owe.

More monthly tax moves: Want some more hot August tax moves?

You'll find them over in the ol' blog's right column, under the August Tax Moves header that's just below the clock counting down the days until the Oct. 15 filing extension deadline.

Find a shady spot, grab your favorite cool drink and check them out.

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I put in a small claim of 600 year last year.I am full comp for four years.I have a full licence.I am a lady driver.I havent moved house.My claim is settled.some insurance companies has refused to quote me.they say it is not in there policy to do so.They wont give me this in writing as this is not there policy either.At the time of the claim i was told verbaly that my insurance would not go up more than 150 euros.

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Its a stats question

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If I have a full coverage insurance policy through Allstate, esurance, statefarm, progressive, or geico. I know that it automatically includes liability as well as comprehensive and collision with a deductible. But does it also cover me if I total my car in an at fault accident, does it cover me when driving a rental vehicle, does it pay for rental cars or offer discounts when my car is down or in the shop?""

Will a stolen recovered car affect the insurance and vehicle value?

I'm looking to purchase a car that is stated stolen/recovered NOT cat C or cat D What does this mean? Will it affect the insurance price? Can I get insurance if I'm 17?

Is this a good way to cancel car insurance?

I'm about to switch car insurance providers, but my past agent is one of the most helpful person alive, and I don't want to tell the guy that i'm cancelling. If I just let the policy lapse by not paying the bill and letting it cancel on its own will anything negative impact me? Or do I have to call the guy and tell him i'm cancelling?""

What is the average cost of life insurance?

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im 17 almost 18 looking to drive soon? how much would I pay if.... -no good student discount -3 cars -1 boat -live with parents under whom which ill have co-sign my insurance for now out of predictions, how much do teens usually pay for auto insurance?""

""I was rear ended, question about insurance?""

I was rear ended, and since it was completely the other guys fault my insurance company (allstate) said I could just call his insurance company to file the claim, as they would be paying for everything. So I did, and they sent out the adjuster to assess the damages (basically scratches) and said they will be sending me a check based on the adjusters findings. So... what if when I go to get it fixed it costs more, or what if they find out something is bent or jacked up underneath? Can I go back and ask for more money if that happens?""

Cheapest car for a 17 year old girl?

What's the cheapest car to buy and on insurance for a new driver of 17? I've been told an old car with small engine but that's coming out 4,000 on insurance surely that isn't right?""

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I'm soon going to have my license suspended for 30 days. My car insurance is paid through next year. Will it still be valid during my suspension period? (i.e. liability if my girlfriend drives it even though she's licensed / insured as well or for comprehensive damage, etc.). No, I will not be driving my car or any other during my suspension period. I just wanted to know if there are generally any 'clauses' in policies that eliminate the ins. co. liability if the insured has a suspended license and something happens to the vehicle. Separate question: Does adding a car to your policy trigger a license check by the insurance company? Thanks for your help!""

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What is the cheapest insurance for an 18 yr old college student, who lives away from home?""

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English c european car insurance???

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I'm getting sued from an old car accident? will my insurance pay?

two years ago i was involved in an accident with another vehicle. we filed a police report and we each reported the accident to our insurance companies. i filed a claim with my company, but the insurance companies had us each pay our own damages. we both walked away from the accident. two years later, i receive a certified letter that i'm being sued for $10,000 (within my liability limits) for medical damages and other losses. i need to appear in court or have a lawyer. it's been two years, will my insurance company still cover this after such a long time? and, do i have to find my own lawyer, or will the insurance company help me? (they're a very good company) i just found out and i contacted them, but they can't get back to me til monday while they find the old adjuster's files.""

How much would insurance and stuff be for a 1st time driver?

i dont plan on puttin a car on the road till i get my g2.. whts in 11 more months lol ill be 19 then. but i have to do it all on my Own and i dont make alot of money wht is why im savin up!, and nobody else in my family has a car so i can NOT go unnder any1 elses insurance. and i live in Belleville ontario. and so far the only car insurance place i seen around here is Statefarm so ill proly b goin with tht. and i plan on havin either a z24 cavalier, honda civic, neon, sunfire, or an acura, no older then 93.... sp anyone knw wht its gonna cost?, im thinkin proly around $500 a month but im not sure..""

Insurance rates going up?

If there is a licensed driver in a home where ppl have auto insurance would the rates go up? I really need to know.

Does anyone know of a health insurance company that pays the Medicare B premium?

I live in the formerly great state of California. A friend has her Medicare B insurance premiums paid by her insurance company. She was employed by a school system in California. Is there such a plan for non-school retirees? My current insurance says everyone must pay the Medicare B premium.

What is the point of car insurance?

Im 15, and of course im thinking about getting a drivers license. I feel bad for my parents though, cause they have to pay for the insurance, and its going to be more money than my sisters insurance cause im a guy, and it costs more for some unkown reason. So I thought I would just be a safer driver and just not get insurance. I asked my parents about it and they told me it was illigal NOT to get car insurance. so I said, well, at least if I do get in a car reck, it will be covered and they replied; you have to pay for it anyways. three questions: Why is car insurance illigal to not get? What is the point of car insurance if it doesnt help cover accident costs? And why does gieco and other companies advertise if its illigal not to get it? Thnx so much!""

What kind of car insurance......?

do u have and how much do u pay a month

How much would insurance cost for a 16 yr old female?

I'm 16 & getting a 2010 Nissan Maxima. Don't tell me not to get it because I'll wreck or trash it. I learned how to drive when I was 12 and I drove all the time when I got my permit. I'm not going to trash it at all. All I need to know if how much insurance might be. A rough estimate because I know everywhere is different. Some few details: I'm 16, a female, straight A student, and really responsible. Thanks.""

What are some good cheap car auto insurance in the washington dc area for a 23 yr old female?

HELP! I need an insurance company for my 50cc moped?!?

Hey Im 16 and have just bought an 07 Aprilia SR50 scooter, I need to get insurance but most places are quoting me around 500! Im not one of these chavs that races around don't worry! Does anyone here recommend any insurance companies or have a good deal on there insurance? Thanks in advance. =]""

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DeVos Moves To Give Control Of Education To Koch Brothers And Heritage…

DeVOS MOVES TO GIVE CONTROL OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO KOCH BROTHERS AND HERITAGE FOUNDATION

MARCH 17th, 2017

Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, is wasting no time when it comes to destroying our children's education on a federal level. During her confirmation hearing, she stressed that she would work in the best interests of students, teachers and education leaders, and that she supported public schools, wanting only the best for them. But for those who know DeVos' history, this was not in tune with her previous statements and actions.

She has spent the last twenty plus years destroying the education system in her home state of Michigan. Through investing millions of her personal fortune into buying influence with Michigan politicians, she was able to get numerous bills passed that established charter schools and voucher programs. The DeVos family also helped create organizations that supported these bills, organizations that Betsy was a board member of. These organizations would then pressure and fund candidates who were under the impression this was a movement within education. Only it wasn't. It was actually all coming from a small group of like minded people: The Heritage Foundation, the DeVos family and the Koch brothers to name a few.

Today, the system Betsy DeVos created in Michigan is falling apart. Schools are closing, and there is no fair play when it comes to the quality of education being offered. This is mainly due to DeVos funding opposition to state mandated accountability practices. Schools in Michigan report to no one, and literally anyone can open a school. Students are failing and unable to maintain scores similar to other states. Taxpayer money is being drained from public schools and given to charter schools, thus crippling the public system. Public schools were not failing until she got her grubby little hands on them.

STEP ONE: CUT ACCOUNTABILITY

Secretary DeVos began her assault on the Department of Education by gutting the very program she promised to uphold, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The ESSA is more or less the same set of standards and reporting practices that President George W. Bush's No Child Left Behind Act and the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act before it. Each president has changed the name of the program while adding or subtracting a few programs here and there. It is a large set of regulations that require schools across the nation to meet state academic standards, conduct academic assessments, have statewide accountability systems and provide for school support.

While DeVos kept all the programs in ESSA, on March 13, 2017, she created what is referred to as the Consolidated ESSA Plan. It dropped all accountability measures. States will still have to submit their program plans to the Department of Education as this helps the federal government determine how much assistance/funding to give each state. As DeVos stated:

"Students have never been well-served by rules, regulations, and red tape that are not absolutely necessary and that hinder their teachers, local school districts, and state leaders."

This statement makes is seem as if she only cut those rules and regulations that were not benefiting students and schools. However, this is not the case. To be clear, she cut all rules and regulations. States can now choose the programs they participate in as long as they do not violate disability and discrimination laws. How those states evaluate their schools and programs is up to them. Further, they do not need any approval as to how they spend any funds even if they are taxpayer funds.

STEP TWO: BREAK UP TEACHER'S UNIONS

States will no longer be required to report on teacher's issues such as pay discrepancy. Schools will not have to provide students with access to school counselors, experienced teachers or certified teachers. In short, this allows schools to hire teachers with little to no experience or certification. A recent bill stating that teachers need not have a teaching degree but merely experience in a field in Wisconsin was killed due to voter outrage. Aside from making Joe Blow a teacher, this will reduce actual teachers' pay and benefits.

DeVos' goal is to take taxpayer money from the federal government and dole it out to states who in turn hire private management companies that maintain charter schools. By refusing to hold states accountable at the federal level, they no longer have to follow Constitutional requirements of separation of church and state. This will allow for religion to be brought into the classroom; of course they mean Christianity. Additionally, she will be creating a private market that is funded by taxpayer dollars.

STEP THREE: BRING IN THE VAST RIGHT-WING NETWORK SHE CREATED IN MICHIGAN

On Tuesday, March 14, 2017, Secretary DeVos met with the Center for Education Reform (CER). According to her schedule, this was "behind closed doors," so we have no idea what was said. That's convenient since the CER is part of the DeVos education network she created in Michigan. This network consists of many private, non-profit organizations that are funded by right-wing think tanks.

At the top of this network is The Heritage Foundation.Betsy DeVos' father-in-law, Richard DeVos, helped create the foundation by initially funding it in the 1970's. The Heritage Foundation is the go to organization for everything right-wing. They are the reason America is under Trump tyranny right now. They are behind the voter roll purges, voter ID laws and all the other Republican shenanigans. The Heritage Foundation maintains professional advisers on every subject from the environment to defense. They tell Republicans what to think and what to do, which explains how they are always in lockstep on every issue.

The Heritage Foundation's education department established mini-Heritage Foundations in every state called the State Policy Network (SPN). The SPN in turn funds the multitude of charitable, pro-charter school, pro-voucher organizations that have been established by the DeVos, the Koch brothers and a handful of other mega-wealthy parasites that feed at the government trough. The CERS is one of these groups. They in turn donate to each other's organizations and to both the SPN and The Heritage Foundation. They are all supporting each other in gaining access to state legislatures and local school boards to make each system into a private education enterprise run off of taxpayer dollars.

In order to streamline this concept, The Heritage Foundation, SPN and all these charitable organizations joined the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is responsible for bringing together corporate interests and legislation. It maintains departments in all subject matters like The Heritage Foundation, but ALEC focuses on writing legislation only. They claim to be non-partisan but only have one Democrat on their roles. Your state representatives meet with corporate representatives and vote on what should be included in bills. ALEC then writes the legislation and makes it available to all legislative bodies. Representatives merely have to copy and paste their names to the bills and pretend they wrote them.

ALEC maintains education bills concerning legalizing charter schools, resolutions supporting homeschooling, school tax credit programs, online school charter acts and many more. As reported by an investigation by The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), they have been pushing for privatization in schools since 1985 when they wrote Milwaukee's Parental Choice Program. Today Georgia, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Florida and Indiana have all passed charter school legislation using ALEC bills. It has been estimated that half of all legislation in the states was written not by your representatives that you voted for, but by ALEC.

In addition to funding The Heritage Foundation, SPN and ALEC, the Koch brothers also funnel money into education through various non-profit groups. Millions have been pushed toward privatizing schools via theirClaude R. Lambe Foundation, Donors Trust, Donors Capital Fund, Americans for Prosperity and the Knowledge and Progress Fund. Likewise, the DeVos family funneled their money through the American Enterprise Institute, FreedomWorks, The Federalist Society, The Mackinac Center for Public Policy, The Great Lakes Education Program and many other groups.

STEP FOUR: CONVINCE AMERICANS TO PRIVATIZE EDUCATION

ALEC is a pro at using terms to fool the public. CMD's investigation found that ALEC purposefully labeled their arguments for privatizing schools as "school choice" and "opportunities for low-income families." Many of these organizations show minority children on their websites in an effort to make it seem as though school choice, charters and vouchers are to benefit the minority and poor communities. They also offer scholarship programs that appeal to parents like the Special Needs Scholarship, Foster Child Scholarship and Opportunity Scholarship Programs. The term 'vouchers" will be replaced by "The Education Savings Account Act." You can expect to hear Secretary DeVos make that change in terminology soon.

As usual with these privatizing anti-government types, these programs are in reality a way to benefit rich, white families. According to the CMD report, the wealthy in Wisconsin can now take tax money and pay for private tuition even though most (upwards of 75%) were in those private, religious schools already. In Georgia, ALEC sold a voucher program to parents by claiming it was intended to assist minority families, yet most scholarships were given to white, wealthy families.

ALEC's latest scam is to write bills allowing for corporations to deduct 100% of their donations to educational organizations. Past laws only allowed 50%. This bill is referred to as "The Great Schools Tax Credit Act" and was introduced in seventeen state legislatures during 2015. It's expected to be introduced federally as well.

GAME, SET, MATCH

DeVos began immediately by soliciting contracts for studies on how to fund private, religious schools with taxpayer funds. This week she completely scrapped all of the state education requirements for accountability, all data reporting on teachers and how schools use their taxpayer funds. Meetings with her labyrinth of charter school organizations have also begun as evidenced by her off-the-record meeting with the CER.

This is nothing more than a DeVos style scheme to get tax money into private hands and Christianity into schools. Instead of tax dollars going to public schools, they will go to private management companies that will then give 10-15% to your kid's school. The professional teacher will all but disappear. In return, The Heritage Foundation, the DeVos family and the Kochs will have generations of uneducated, religious zealots to vote for their right-wing causes. This is corporate welfare at its worst.

Only the loud voices of educators and parents can stop this. Start organizing and making your protests heard in hopes that it's not too late.

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/03/devos-moves-give-control-education-koch

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