.Jessica Tang: Student debt isn't helping teacher shortages either. People aren't going to college to become educators because they know the pay isn't enough to cover the loan. This is why #PSLF is so important.

Jessica Tang Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣 Student Borrower Protection Center Thank you Elizabeth Warren for joining, thank you Jessica Tang for moderating, thank you Beth Kontos🌻🐓 🌹 🧶⚡️☀️🌞🌬 & AFT Massachusetts for hosting, and thank all of our participants for sharing their stories!

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At a campaign rally in Georgia, Trump mocked President Biden’s stutter. Again.

While Trump gives a new meaning to the term “bully pulpit,” the dim glow of the newsroom has taught this reporter that there are things the media can do when a candidate’s speech turns to vitriol:…

Welcome to the BTU family! We're thrilled that staff at the Neighborhood House Charter School in Dorchester have chosen to join our union. Once we receive state certification, we're committed to winning a contract that ensures NHCS will be a stable, safe and transparent community

In just one year, U.S. Department of Labor Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su has rapidly expanded apprenticeship opportunities, created new workforce hubs, fought for rulemaking to protect our right to organize & SO much more.

Acting Secretary Julie Su is a champion for working people.

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Julie Su has been an outstanding leader of the Labor Department. She has shown herself to be a strong and consistent advocate for the working families of our country. I look forward to working with her in 2024 and beyond to deliver for American workers.

A living wage helps everybody: A slogan used in our posters printed in the 1950s, and still just as relevant today. #FlashbackFriday

Republicans are choosing homophobia over housing & cruelty over compassion.

They stripped federal funding for The Pryde, an affordable housing project for LGBTQ seniors in the #MA7 .

But I'll never stop fighting for our LGBTQ siblings & to get this funding over the finish line.

As Republicans fought with each other, they let critical funding for childcare expire.

I'm thrilled to see President Biden request $16B to lower childcare costs and support our caregivers, babies & families.

We've been pushing for this & we must get this funding over the finish line.

Boston rally in support of UAW workers with Beth Kontos🌻🐓 🌹 🧶⚡️☀️🌞🌬 Jessica Tang AFT BostonTeachersUnion

Congrats UAW ❤️ This tentative agreement with Ford Motor Company is the result of your organizational leadership and members’ collective action—demanding dignity and fairness. apnews.com/article/auto-w…

We’re joining our union siblings at the Statehouse in supporting UAW and local 422 in their ongoing fight for fair pay against the Big Three automakers. It’s time for lawmakers to support labor and pass a bill granting unemployment benefits to workers on strike #unionstrong

Suleika Soto of BEJA on receivership: “In communities of color that have been taken over by the state, the voices of residents are not heard in decisions that impact them directly”
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Pres. Jessica Tang “School receivership has become a cudgel the state wields to push ill-defined policies along unrealistic timelines that don’t reflect the character or true needs or solutions of the communities they’re supposed to support.” #ThriveAct AFT Massachusetts Massachusetts Teachers Association