why were they denied their paychecks??? goes to google

i don't get it. we are one of the richest countries in the world yet we can't budget properly and make education a priority? Obviously we need BETTER educated people. this country sometimes.......

Lemme get an article, it was due to stupid-ass budgets and shit

also her rent went up 100 bucks due to gentrification

honestly i don't think any teacher should be allowed to be evicted...and they can't really evict just after being late one month

DPS: No teacher paychecks, summer school after June 30

and she COULD fight this and would most likely win

I'm assuming it's also due to paychecks but teachers already did strikes for this, so... it was a bit of a strike, too

i know people need to make money (landlords) but there should be some understanding here

Her rent went up at the same time. Shitty timing.

i mean i can understand if it were a few months behind but one?

Right. But some, including mine, go to court after one month behind

They'll just kick you out

i'd fight it, and be like TAKE ME TO COURT BITCHES

right

put more spotlight on the problem

Here she is Felonious Donk on Twitter

I'm putting pieces together here, BUT I know there was a strike, I also know she tweeted her rent went up about the same time, so I'm putting 2 and 2 together

nods

But this woman cheered me on through every failure in comics I had due to outside influences.

She's also a dedicated local poet on top of raising her daughter to read comics about strong women. She's a hell of a person.

I can't stand to see her go through this.

what's sad is that it's NOT an isolated case. I live in AZ which is ranked 50 on terms of education funds out of 50 states

Yeah

UGH WE NEED BERNIE

seriously though something needs to be done on a federal level regarding the educational crisis we are having nation wide

like a mandatory percentage of a state's budget should go towards education

I agree so much.

Stories like these make me so thankful I live in Vancouver where we have really strong renters rights. Apparently things were super appalling here before the renters rights came into place.

yeah Oregon has REALLY strong rental rights too

in fact in some cases really detrimental to the landlord. We had one of our roommates girlfriend stay over and was wrecking havoc. We weren't allowed to kick her out b/c she had BELONGINGS with her

so it became her residence.

then they decided to be further douchebags and refused to pay rent. We couldn't do ANYTHING to them, had to evict them. This was with a ROOMMATE situation

they weren't on the lease or anything

Ugh. I know our landlord had a hell of a time evicting the previous tenant. She was finally able to get him out when he was arrested for dealing drugs beside the building.

so while it's good on the one hand when seriously fucked up things happen, it is also a hindrance too

I know Whitney's living near the riverfront sooooo.

Previously the apartment's street was filled with druggies, so it wasn't as high in rent, but I knew that would change.

what does that mean?

ah

I think it is all about striking the right balance. A lot of places don't have any balance at all.

Yeah riverfront property.

I knew this from the last time she came over, anyway

see another thing that pisses me off is that we renters have to give EVERYTHING about our backgrounds to the potential landlords but they don't ahve to prove ANYTHIGN on their end.

Maybe she moved but... I didn't know of it. I only know of her generousity

There's also super fucking high deposits here to rent somewhere new.

i really hope it gets resolved quickly for her and for all the teachers cause that's so fucked up

I doubt it. I knew one of the top guys from the previous power exchange.. he liked to fuck around and not pay attention to his job

While pretending he was a faithful married dude and dedicated safety person

They all make me sick.

This is why I have such contempt for these upper class people here. They make so much money.. it's all about image with them. No shit about who gets the shaft, who gets endangered. Look at Flint.

The thing about Flint is that Flint is America. This shit is happening everywhere. Flint is just one place where a spotlight was shown on all the horrible crap going on everywhere in the country.

We gotta resolve our class differences soon then, or else we won't be in for good times coming up

For real.

And, it is only getting worse. Anyone who denies it is either on top or has their head in the sand.

You're so right

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