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Unemployment Benefits For The Filthy Rich
BillLawrenceOnline.Com ^ | 12-3-11

Posted on 12/03/2011 8:05:51 PM PST by Tribune7

The headlines last week were filled with outrage over the revelation that former Philadelphia School Superintendent Arlene Ackerman has filed for $573 a week in unemployment compensation, the maximum amount in Pennsylvania.

Ms. Ackerman, who was contracted to receive a $348,000 salary through 2014, was bought out of it for a $905,000 lump-sum payment plus $83,000 for unused vacation and personal days.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: ackerman; arleneackerman
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To: LouAvul

No to affirmative action.

Haven’t been laid off yet.

My time’s a coming, though.....

And I’m atypical :)


21 posted on 12/03/2011 9:13:09 PM PST by onona (FR is continuing education)
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To: Tribune7
Ms. Ackerman, who was contracted to receive a $348,000 salary through 2014, was bought out of it for a $905,000 lump-sum payment plus $83,000 for unused vacation and personal days.

What do they care? It's taxpayer money. It's not like they're accountable for spending it.

22 posted on 12/03/2011 10:04:29 PM PST by VeniVidiVici ("Si, se gimme!")
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To: Tribune7

Philadelphia need to tune it’s system a tad.


23 posted on 12/04/2011 1:49:46 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: NMCicero

In PA, severance pay doesn’t count against receiving unemployment. If she wasn’t fired for cause, she collects.


24 posted on 12/04/2011 3:03:46 AM PST by NEPA (Give me liberty, not debt)
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To: Tribune7

These affirmative action millionnaires don’t have to earn their stash the old-fashioned way, by earning it. They can just get it from the almost-empty government trough. A prime example is the fraudulent payment of billions of dollars to non-existent Black “farmers” by the USDA.


25 posted on 12/04/2011 3:55:03 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: NEPA

I hope she has to fill out a bi-weekly form stating the places she applied for a job. ;-)


26 posted on 12/04/2011 4:58:09 AM PST by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: tflabo

If she ran a model school district which was the envy of the nation, then she would be worth much more than $348,000 a year.

But the Philadelphia School District is a disaster and she is utterly incompetent. That’s why they wanted to get rid of her. They couldn’t just fire her for incompetence, so they offered her a $900,000 carrot - also taxpayer’s money.

But the sheeple of Philly will keep voting in the incompetents.


27 posted on 12/04/2011 5:52:10 AM PST by randita (I'm not a percentage. I'm a free person.)
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