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Strikes in Oklahoma and Kentucky.
俄克拉何马州和肯塔基州教师罢工。
After teachers in West Virginia held out for a 5 percent pay raise, receiving it after a nine-day walkout in one of the poorest states in the US.
西弗吉尼亚州教师要求加薪5%，该州是全美最贫穷大州之一，历经九天罢工后教师如愿以偿。
This is a very unusual spring for us, for some of my teachers they're referring to this as the education spring.
这个春天对我们而言太不寻常了，一些老师称之为教育的春天。
In Oklahoma, legislators are debating a revenue package aimed at ending its statewide teacher walkout,
在俄克拉何马州，为了结束全州范围内的教师罢工，立法者讨论财政问题，
including two proposals to tax certain Internet sales and expand tribal gambling.
提议对特定网络销售征税，扩大部落博彩业。
The teachers are demanding increased education spending, including raises.
教师要求增加教育支出，包括加薪。
Kentucky teachers are protesting cuts to their pensions,
在肯塔基州，教师福利削减引抗议，
and in Arizona, teachers are asking for a 20% pay increase with the threat of a strike on the horizon.
而在亚利桑那州，教师要求加薪20%，否则将举行罢工。
Teachers are a little fed up with the fact that their salaries haven't been going up,
迟迟不加薪，教师们有点受够了，
and in most of those states actually spending for schools has actually gone down in real terms since the Great Recession,
自经济大萧条以来，多数大州的学校开支实际上减少了，
and so partly teachers are hearing all this news about how the economy is recovering and they actually haven't seen an increase in their salaries.
部分原因是老师听到的新闻都是经济如何复苏，但薪水却没有上调。
Schools are funded primarily at the local and state levels in the US, and Oklahoma and Arizona have experienced serious tax reductions, says Michael Hansen.
迈克尔·汉森称学校资金主要来自美国当地和州一级，而俄克拉何马州和亚利桑那州曾大幅减税。
So these states, both of these states cut costs significantly in the immediate wake of the recession,
所以萧条结束后，两大州立即大幅削减成本，
and then they've cut taxes, so that even though the economies in these states have been recovering,
接着它们削减了税收，所以即便是经济复苏，
the state is not getting nearly as much money as they used to and that creates a budget constraint.
也达不到之前的经济水平，这就给财政预算带来了很大的约束。
Lily Eskelsen Garcia says that the argument by state legislators that they have to live within a budget sounds reasonable.
莉莉·加西亚认为立法者所说的控制预算听起来很合理。
But if you've manipulated that budget to actually take a whole lot of the money off the table
如果我们将预算拿走，
by giving a big tax break to some of the biggest corporations, to oil companies in Oklahoma.
给俄克拉何马州的大公司，石油公司减税。
And you say no, no, no. We'll make it, so these folks don't have to pay their taxes that revenue is not in the budget,
然后你说不不不，我们能做到这点，所以这些人不需要交税，税收也不涵盖在预算里面。
and they shrug their shoulders like it was magically disappeared, look, this is all we have; this is all you have by design.
他们耸耸肩，就好像这钱凭空蒸发了一样，你看我们就只有这些，不，是你们设计了这一切。
For the 2016 to 2017 school year, the National Center for Education Statistics estimated
2016到2017学年，据国家教育统计中心预计，
the average national salary for kindergarten to 12 grade teachers to be about 59,000 dollars,
幼儿园到12年级教师的平均工资为5.9万美元，
compared to averages of 46,000 dollars in West Virginia, 45,000 dollars in Oklahoma, 52,000 dollars in Kentucky and 47,000 dollars in Arizona.
西弗吉尼亚州4.6万美元，俄克拉何马州4.5万美元，肯塔基州5.2万美元，亚利桑那州4.7万美元。
Jill Craig, VOA news, Washington.
美国之音新闻，吉尔·克雷格，华盛顿报道。
