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Esmeralda Zaragoza used to own a store at Cermak and Damen that was forced to close due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 48-year-old said she repeatedly sought help from the city and state but was left to fend for herself. “It is not the same being a refugee and an immigrant,” Zaragoza said. “We don’t have the same things, but we want the same things that they are getting.”
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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IL Democrats virtue signaling clown-car on illegals is running into a brick wall of reality.
I’ll bet all those in favor of migrant shelter are the mostly white hippster lib-tard types that have been taking over Pilsen over the years
Absolutely comical – everything is great with Democrats till the bills come due. Pay up, or leave. That’s how it works in IL and Chicago.