By Matt Egan, CNN

New York (CNN) — Ashley loves her day job teaching math, reading and science to fifth graders in Washington state. But like many other teachers, Ashley relies on a side hustle or two to get by.

When she’s not in the classroom, Ashley works as a spray tanner at night during the school year and at her family’s Christmas tree farm over winter break. Her husband, Jake, also a public school teacher, has a side hustle of his own as a painter.

“I absolutely love what I do, but it comes with big challenges financially,” Ashley, who preferred not to share her last name, told CNN in a phone interview. “My husband and I are doing whatever we can, whenever we can, to support our lifestyle.”

They’re hardly alone.

The majority of public school teachers (71%) hold at least one side job, according to a survey released Monday by Gallup in partnership with the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Walton Family Foundation.

Teacher schedules, with seasonal breaks and summers off, provide more time for side hustles compared to some other professions. Yet the Gallup survey found that 85% of those who hold side jobs do that work during the school year, not just over breaks.

Teaching during the day, driving Ubers at night

The side work often stretches beyond teaching-related jobs such as tutoring.

Nearly a third of teachers hold a second job that is unrelated to education, including driving Ubers, delivering food, and working as bartenders and waiters.

While teachers have historically been underpaid, the issue has been exacerbated by today’s cost-of-living problems. The rising cost of groceries, insurance and utilities have hurt lower- and middle-income workers across industries.

Ashley said she works a second job to not feel like she’s living paycheck to paycheck on her $62,000-a-year salary. The money from her work as a spray tanner goes towards travel and a down payment on a house.

“We’re trying to save up to buy a house, but in this economy, that’s very difficult on two teacher salaries,” Ashley said.

According to the Gallup survey, just 28% of teachers say they’re living comfortably on their household income. By contrast, 52% say they are only getting by and 21% say they face financial challenges.

Teachers who say they are struggling are twice as likely to hold a non-teaching related side gig compared to those living comparably (46% vs. 22%), according to Gallup.

“It’s shocking to see how many teachers work in in second jobs outside of education during the school year,” former US Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, now president and CEO of the Bipartisan Policy Center, told CNN. “Our teachers feel so financially strained that they have to seek additional employment. This is at odds with what we say we value.”

When it comes to pay, teachers have been left in the dust by other professions. According to the National Education Association, the average teacher salary in the 2024-2025 school year was just over $72,000.

Public school teachers make about 27% less than other people who have similar levels of education in other jobs, according to 2024 data from the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the Economic Policy Institute. That’s the highest on records that go back to the 1970s. It’s even worse for men, where the teacher pay gap is 36%.

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By Amanda Musa, Hanna Park, CNN

(CNN) — In the early hours of Sunday morning, as a bar in a busy nightlife district of Austin, Texas, prepared to close for the night, patrons and staff were startled by the sound of gunshots.

Armed with a pistol and a rifle, a man opened fire from outside the venue on the city’s bustling Sixth Street, killing two people and wounding 14 others, according to the Austin Police Department and the FBI’s San Antonio Division. It’s among at least 56 mass shootings in the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.

Investigators are now working to determine whether the suspect – who was fatally shot by police – was motivated by recent US and Israeli strikes on Iran, multiple law enforcement officials briefed on the case said, cautioning that it is too early to draw firm conclusions.

Investigators are also looking into the man’s criminal history and his mental health status, source said.

Here’s what we know:

Who is the suspected gunman?

The suspected gunman was identified as 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne, Austin Police Department said in an X post Sunday evening.

Diagne entered the United States on March 13, 2000, on a B‑2 tourist visa, a Department of Homeland Security official told CNN. In June 2006, he adjusted his status to lawful permanent resident based on marriage to a US citizen and naturalized on April 5, 2013.

Diagne was originally from Senegal, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation told CNN.

Upon arriving in the US, Diagne initially settled in New York and eventually made his way to Texas, although it’s not clear when, the official said. He had multiple addresses in the Lone Star State, the official added.

In 2022, he was arrested in Texas on a charge of collision with vehicle damage, a misdemeanor offense, according to the DHS official.

Authorities are also reviewing past mental health encounters the suspect had while living in Texas, multiple law enforcement officials have said.

CNN has reached out to the Austin Police Department and FBI San Antonio for more details.

Was Iran a factor?

The suspect was wearing a shirt with an Iranian flag design on it underneath a hoodie printed with “Property of Allah,” a law enforcement official told CNN.

“Obviously, it’s still way too early in the process to determine an exact motivation, but there were indicators on the subject and then his vehicle that indicate a potential nexus to terrorism,” Alex Doran, acting special agent in charge of the FBI San Antonio Division, said at a news conference Sunday morning.

A large law enforcement presence was seen Sunday at a home connected to the suspect in Pflugerville, a suburb of Austin, CNN affiliate KEYE reported.

Investigators were seen taking boxes of items from the home and looking closely at a car in the driveway, KEYE said.

Authorities searching his home were likely investigating his computers and phones to determine if he was reading any propaganda or left any writings indicating what he intended to do, an official told CNN.

How did the shooting unfold?

The violence erupted along a stretch of Sixth Street, in the city’s downtown Market District, known for its dense concentration of bars and live music venues – a bustling corridor just a short drive from the University of Texas at Austin.

Authorities first received a call about a man shooting from a large

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Por Karta Cripps, CNN

La guerra en Irán continúa causando caos en la aviación en Medio Oriente y más allá, con aviones que permanecen en tierra en una de las regiones con mayor tráfico aéreo del mundo.

Las aerolíneas de todo el mundo se han visto obligadas a cancelar vuelos a través de múltiples ciudades de la zona, lo que afecta a miles de viajeros globales.

Entre ellos se incluyen aeropuertos en estados del Golfo amigos de Estados Unidos, incluidas las ciudades de Dubai y Abu Dhabi, en los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, que se han convertido en blanco de represalias iraníes por albergar bases militares estadounidenses.

Esto es lo que los viajeros necesitan saber.

Un amplio corredor del espacio aéreo sobre el Medio Oriente permanece cerrado este lunes mientras los países vecinos de Irán restringen los vuelos dentro y fuera de la región.

Esto incluye los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Qatar, Kuwait, Israel, Bahrein e Iraq, cuyos cielos permanecieron casi vacíos el lunes por la mañana, como lo muestran los mapas del sitio web de seguimiento de vuelos Flightradar24.

Medio Oriente alberga varias aerolíneas importantes, como Emirates y Etihad en Dubai y Abu Dabi, y Qatar Airways, con sede en Doha, la capital qatarí. Y su impacto se extiende mucho más allá de Medio Oriente. Estas tres ciudades son importantes centros de conexiones globales, con millones de pasajeros que transitan por ellas cada año.

Emirates y Etihad suspendieron todos los vuelos hacia y desde sus bases hasta el lunes por la tarde, hora local.

Los vuelos de Qatar Airways hacia y desde el Aeropuerto Internacional Hamad de Doha también han sido suspendidos debido al cierre del espacio aéreo qatarí.

Pero como el conflicto se estaba expandiendo con nuevas huelgas, parecía poco probable que fuera seguro reanudar los vuelos.

Miles de vuelos internacionales fueron cancelados el domingo y este lunes, según datos de FlightAware.com, y las cifras siguen aumentando.

Fuera de la región, otras aerolíneas continúan desviando vuelos programados para volar cerca de la zona de conflicto. La aerolínea alemana Lufthansa, por ejemplo, suspendió los vuelos hacia y desde Dubai hasta el 4 de marzo. También ha suspendido los vuelos a Tel Aviv, Beirut, Amán, Erbil, Dammam y Teherán hasta el 8 de marzo.

British Airways canceló los servicios a Tel Aviv y Bahrein hasta este miércoles.

Se espera que el impacto en la aviación se sienta al menos durante los próximos días.

Se recomienda a los viajeros que consulten con su aerolínea o agente de viajes lo antes posible para obtener información sobre nuevas reservas y reembolsos, aunque los pasajeros están informando dificultades para obtener asistencia debido al alto volumen de llamadas.

Las políticas varían según la aerolínea.

Según el sitio web de Emirates, los viajeros que hayan reservado un vuelo antes del 5 de marzo pueden reservar un vuelo alternativo para viajar el 20 de marzo o antes, o solicitar un reembolso.

Los huéspedes que tengan billetes de Etihad emitidos el 28 de febrero de 2026 o antes, con fechas de viaje originales hasta el 7 de marzo, podrán volver a reservar sin cargo en vuelos operados por Etihad hasta el 18 de marzo.

Las políticas son similares fuera de la región. British Airways, por ejemplo, informa que los clientes que vuelen entre Londres Heathrow y Abu Dhabi, Amán, Bahrein, Doha, Dubai o Tel Aviv hasta el 15 de marzo pueden cambiar la fecha de su vuelo sin coste alguno para viajar antes del 29 de marzo, mientras que quienes viajen hasta el 8 de marzo también pueden solicitar un reembolso completo. El Departamento de Estado de EE. UU. ha emitido una alerta de seguridad aconsejando a los ciudadanos estadounidenses de todo el mundo que “tengan precaución” y sigan las últimas in