Education, Education, Education

15104 seeks to advocate for workers and the working class.  Bodhi Mickie's family history and life experience can aid in that effort.

Joseph Petrovsky

Grandpa Joseph, in addition to his native Ruthenian , spoke German, Hungarian, and Polish.  In the early 20th Century, those skills got him a job as a crew chief in the Edgar Thomson Works of U.S. Steel.

Dad (AKA the Munchkin) was ABD in physics from the University of Pittsburgh.  At various points in his life, he worked as a teacher, an engineer, and even The Voice of Kennywood.

Aunt Martha also had a degree from Pitt - in social work.  She once described her job as going around to all the bars in Braddock and telling the drunken steelworkers to go home and dry out.

I've worked as a bookkeeper, a secretary, and a lecturer in computer science.  My sister was a petty officer in the Hospital Corps of the U.S. Navy.  One cousin was a nurse, another an accountant, and yet another a sales manager.

From Grandpa Joseph's generation through mine, education was pivotal not only to income level and social stratum, but most importantly to self-esteem and membership in the larger community.  So allow me to close by reiterating the title of this post, and by paraphrasing real estate:  what counts is education, education, education.

Trumpian Math

The effort to bring to light, and to justice, connections between the Trump campaign and the Russian government lend themselves to fuzzy math of the sort we saw a few days ago. It's estimated that as much as $7 million has been spent to date on Russiagate.  Such an amount would finance tuition for about twenty thousand six hundred forty nine (20,649) three-credit courses at Delaware County Community College in southeastern Pennsylvania. 

Something else for which we might have to hold The Donald responsible ...