This piece of legislation seems an innovative way to turn a negative in a positive: create incentives to encourage those recently unemployed in two of the state’s most important industry — Big Pharma and finance — to become teachers. This would create jobs for people who need them, filling a need in the public schools for science and math teachers.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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