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Des Moines Education Association: Fight Back Against the Bashing of Public Employees

Fight Back Against the Bashing of Public Employees

If you are talking to your neighbor, a relative, or some random citizen on the street and they begin to parrot some anti-public employee union propaganda that they have heard in the media don't let it pass take it as a teachable moment by using some of the information in the following articles...

DO PUBLIC EMPLOYEES ENJOY BETTER PAY AND BENEFITS AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE?

According to a recently released report from the Iowa Policy Project public employees make less when compared with comparable private sector employees of the same education and age.

You can read the Des Moines Register article on this report HERE.

You can read the full report from the Iowa Policy Project HERE.

DON'T PUBLIC EMPLOYEES NEED TO CONTRIBUTE MORE TO THEIR OWN BENEFITS?

A huge misconception is that somehow public employees do not contribute to their health insurance benefits or