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But 15 months after Gov. JB Pritzker signed what was touted as the most equitable climate change-fighting law in the country, the job-training programs those initiatives were supposed to establish in the growing green economy still don’t exist; And not a single new ”equity” job has been created. That’s despite the promised job-creation efforts Pritzker’s state Department of Commerce and Economic Development is supposed to set up — for which it was given the authority to spend as much as $180 million a year.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Well surprise, surprise, surprise!
It delivered to the government bureaucrats (an official in a government department, in particular one perceived as being concerned with procedural correctness at the expense of people’s needs.), just not to anyone or anything else.
Sounds like another Solyndra. Big Government fails again!
The whole program was always a big puff of smoke. In Illinois, who is going to train all these green workers? There isn’t a group of trainers to do that task because we don’t have an industry in place yet. Minorities get duped again but vote for the Dem BS’er anyway. They never learn. I don’t know the head of DCEO, Sylvia Garcia. But if you look at her resume on the state website, she has zero experience with job creation or green energy. Lots of nice bureaucratic jobs, bouncing from housing (which is extremely technical) to transportation at the… Read more »
You mean the Climate Change bag is empty???
Surprise!
It’s all a fraud.
If you aren’t a Democrat when you’re 20 you’re not having any fun. If you haven’t turned Republican by 40, you are not paying attention. – said the wise old man
Yes, he was re-elected.
Stupid chickens.