For some of our nation's most important workers, there is a major disconnect between pay and priorities. Many teachers and firefighters are struggling just to make a living. While there may be a renewed sense of heroism for the nation's firefighters, they are not compensated for the potential risks that they face daily. And teaching is one of the lowest paying among white-collar professionals. Fred Katayama has more on America's most underpaid.
對于我們國家某些最重要的勞動者來說，薪水和優(yōu)先政策脫節(jié)很嚴(yán)重。許多教師和救火隊(duì)員的辛勞僅能糊口。雖然人們對于國家的消防員有了一種全新的英雄主義情結(jié)，但是消防員并沒有因?yàn)槊刻煲鎸Φ臐撛诘奈ｋU(xiǎn)而受到補(bǔ)償。教學(xué)是白領(lǐng)從業(yè)者中薪水最低的一個職業(yè)。佛瑞德·片山將詳細(xì)報(bào)道美國報(bào)酬最低的勞動者的情況。

Teaching is no 9-to-5 job. Don O'Neil leaves the house he shares with his sister's family and arrives at Weaver High in Hartford by 7. To connect with inner-city students, the science teacher helps coach the football team and he advises students, meets with parents and grades paper.
教學(xué)不是朝九晚五式的工作。唐·奧尼爾早上離開與其姐姐合住的家，7點(diǎn)鐘就要趕到哈特福德的韋弗中學(xué)。為了同來自城里低收入家庭的學(xué)生密切聯(lián)系，這位理科教師不僅輔導(dǎo)橄欖球，還要為學(xué)生提供咨詢，同學(xué)生家長會面，閱卷打分。

When the bell goes on, you're on stage. Your actor, psychologist, instructor, parent, social worker, and you've to do it five or six periods a day, five days a week, regardless of how you feel.
鈴聲一響，你就站在講臺。不管你感受如何，你是演員、心理學(xué)家、導(dǎo)師、父母和社會工作者，你必須每天上5至6堂課，每周工作5天。

For all of this, the 50-year-old, six-year veteran gets paid just $36,000, even though his state ranks third highest in teacher pay. His paycheck shrank by a third when he switched careers from managing a paint store to managing students. To make end's meet, he teaches night and summer school as well. Teachers just don't make the grade when it comes to pay. The average teacher earns roughly $43,000 a year. Adjusted for inflation, their salaries have risen less than a 1/3 of a percent per year during the last decade, despite the economic boom. And the pay gap between teachers and other professions keeps growing. For example, accountants make 22 percent more than teachers today, double the gap nine years ago.
對于這位年過半百、有6年經(jīng)驗(yàn)的老教師來說，這一切的報(bào)酬是年薪3.6萬美元，雖然他所在的州在教師報(bào)酬方面排名第三。當(dāng)他從管理一個油漆店轉(zhuǎn)行管學(xué)生，他的薪水縮水1/3。為了維持生計(jì)，他還在夜校和暑期班教課。在薪水方面教師被打入了另類。教師平均每年賺4.3萬美元。雖然在過去的10年中經(jīng)濟(jì)繁榮，但排除通貨膨脹的因素，教師的薪水每年增加不到0.3％。教師和其他職業(yè)的報(bào)酬差距還在不斷增加。例如，會計(jì)目前比教師多拿22％的工資，是9年前差距的兩倍。

Education spending has grown somewhat over the years, although not as quickly as most people think it has. A lot of the new money is going into special education, which tend to have smaller class sizes, which means you end up hiring more teachers instead of paying the teachers you have more.
撥款增長雖然不如大多數(shù)人所認(rèn)為的那么快，但在過去幾年中的確有所增加。許多新增錢款投入到特殊教育中，這種趨勢是班級人數(shù)較少，這意味著必須雇用更多的教師，而不是給現(xiàn)有的教師更多的工資。

Last year, more than 200 teachers in New Jersey broke state law by striking over pay and benefits. That landed them in jail.
去年有200多名教師在新澤西違法游行抗議工資和待遇。結(jié)果他們被關(guān)進(jìn)監(jiān)牢。

?...go no where, that's the whole point of this.
何去何從，這是關(guān)鍵所在。

Teaching is an emotionally demanding job and teachers often get little respect.
教學(xué)是需要全心投入的工作，但教師卻經(jīng)常沒有得到應(yīng)有的尊重。

Don't forget this, too.
這一點(diǎn)也不該被忘掉。

Yet, O'Neil won't give up the chalk talk for anything else.
但是奧尼爾不會放棄他的粉筆生涯，去改做任何其他事情。

I get a lot more back, that's what it is, I think. I'll be teaching a class and a kid will pop in and go, hey, you know, I really miss you.
我認(rèn)為，事實(shí)上我獲得了更多的回報(bào)。我教一個班的學(xué)生，孩子進(jìn)來又走了。嗨，我真的會想念你們。

His colleague, who teaches health, could earn six figures with his medical degree, but finds joy in teaching kids.
他有一個教保健衛(wèi)生的同事，本來可以憑著醫(yī)學(xué)學(xué)位拿6位數(shù)的年薪，但是他更喜歡教孩子。

The way medicine is being practiced now, being so managed, I found out that through education, I'm getting a lot done.
現(xiàn)
今行醫(yī)受到許多約束，但是教學(xué)上我可以完成很多工作。

They'll have to keep banking on emotional rewards, not financial, given the slow economy, their paychecks aren't likely to get fatter any time soon.
由于經(jīng)濟(jì)增長緩慢，他們不得不相信精神的回報(bào)，而不是物質(zhì)的，他們的工資不會很快有所增長。

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