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Budget fails education, pushes PA backwards -- Kirsch
AFTPA President Ted Kirsch says the 2013-14 PA budget doesn't reflect the hopes or the priorities of Pennsylvanians.
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Watch the Harrisburg School Funding Rally Video
http://youtu.be/X6hp51cBT6w Tuesday, June 25, more than 2,000 and parents, students, clergy and AFTPA members traveled to Harrisburg from across Pennsylvania tell lawmakers to restore the billiion-dollar education budget cuts to save our public schools, community colleges and universities.
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Talking Points: Protect Retirement Security
Know the facts about school and state employee pensions. Click MORE to read and download AFTPA Pension Talking Points. Then contact your state legislators and write letters to the editors of local newspapers to protect our pensions.
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Fuzzy pension logic - a lose-lose for retirees, workers, taxpayers
Ted Kirsch says the governor's fuzzy pension math hurts retirees, employees and taxpayers after the Keystone Research Center releases two pension White Papers showing that Gov. Corbett's proposals would dramatically reduce benefits for retirees, while increasing the cost to taxpayers significantly.
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What You Can Do To Protect Your Pension
Click here to find out 5 things you can do to protect public employee pensions.
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Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition
The PA Breast Cancer Coalition was founded in 1993 by Pat Halpin-Murphy, AFTPA government relations director. PABCC represents, supports and serves breast cancer survivors and their families in Pennsylvania through educational programming, legislative advocacy and breast cancer research grants. The PBCC is a statewide non-profit organization that creates the hope of a brighter tomorrow by providing action and information to women with breast cancer today.
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Stop Legislation Banning Teacher Strikes
AFT Pennsylvania urges members to call their state senators today to urge them to vote NO on an amendment that would ban teacher strikes across Pennsylvania.
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