Ted joined Shaun Thompson to talk about about the Chicago Teachers Union’s absurd new contract demands, why so many Chicago teachers are chronically absent, and Brandon Johnson’s failed first year as mayor.
What a representation of Chicago’s plight.
The bill passed despite their votes in response to certain incidents where local prosecutors are thought to have been too lenient with non-citizens assaulting cops.
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board cited Wirepoints’ analysis of Chicago student proficiency data in their latest piece condemning the Chicago Teachers Union’s outrageous contract demands…all while a vast majority of Chicago’s children graduate unable to read at grade level.
Ted joined Tom Miller of WJPF to talk about the details of Gov. Pritzker’s proposed $52 billion budget, why the state is struggling now that federal covid dollars have run out, the controversy surrounding Tier 2 government pensions, why Illinois’ expensive education system fails to teach children to read, the outrageous demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, and more.
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Time (again) to tax the prudent and redistribute to the prodigal. Those who take risk gain reward BUT if the risk materializes shouldn’t the risk-takers shoulder the burden? Surely the risk-takers’ creditors and co-investors will join in taking a hit. Workers have SOME protection in bankruptcy. Woven throughout politicians’ sympathy for “victims” is the fact that politicians’ friends will harvest the benefits. One can look at the issues from the perspective of bailouts of GM and Chrysler or with Chicago and Illinois. We are governed by pragmatic self-servers, not by Mother Theresas. The invisible hand always seems to have a… Read more »
If covid lockdowns didn’t shut down your Small Business, the Communist Democrats have more tricks in their Bag to shut you down, inflation being the next one.
Time for economic depression in Illinois.
That’s the price you pay for living there.
Biden and the incompetent administration he’s assembled have messed the economy up so badly that they have no way to fix it before November. They don’t even know what to do. Joe, people don’t care about climate change when they can’t put a meal on the table to feed their family. The complicit mainstream media will do their best to confuse the average American, but it all comes down to whether people feel better or worse about their personal situation. There’s a red wave coming. It may not get to Illinois, but the country has seen enough of Bidenomics.
got news for you. what’s happening is intentional. they don’t want to fix jack.