houston: I'm declaring to you that by the end of my first term, we will have improved teachers' salaries so that we close the pay gap, the California Democrat said in Houston to a group of supporters, according to CNN. Because right now, teachers are making over 10% less than other college educated graduates and that gap is about 13,000 a year, and I am pledging to you that through the federal resources that are available, we will close that gap. Kamala Harris called Saturday for allocating a large federal investment to improve teacher salaries nationwide. Harris' proposal would be the largest ever federal investment in teacher pay, she said. Education occupations have unions that represent more than 37% of employees, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- far more than any other occupations. As candidates sweep across key battle-ground states testing their economic messages with potential voters, Harris is the first to announce a plan to allocate funding to teachers a heavily unionized demographic that is reliably Democratic.
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