I'm completely befuddled as to what krazen's on about here. krazen, 75,000 is a middle class salary.
75K sits in the second highest quintile that goes from about 60 to 100K according the 2010 data from the Census.
Not in chicago my friend.
It always seems like these horrors of unionized teacher stories come from a metro area like nyc or chi twon where thecost of living is MUCH higher than normal. It serves to distort the middle-class standard of living such teacher's earn and likewise project it as a false 'coming soon to your community' warning to the rest of middle america.
Effecive ploy. Misleading, but effective.