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A gender studies major says she can't work at Golman Sachs, so she wants her employer forced to pay more.
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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At $15 minimum wage for McDonald’s workers. A social worker (who decides the foster care fate of kids) making $20 an hour. Will now be buying her lunch from a high school kid making only $5 less than her and whose only responsibility is to not put too much salt on the fries! There are millions of folks making just over $15 an hour with adult responsible jobs. People in data entry jobs, administrators, etc. They are all going to be pissed seeing French friers making almost the same. I see a big ripple effect.
And then they’ll wonder in a few months why their big mac costs $8.
$13 an hour, lives with her parents, claims it’s not enough to cover student loans. Read on a little further: “I was a gender studies major”. And that, ma’am, is why you’re living at home and working in a blues bar.
Hahahah I read the same thing. She says she can’t work at Goldman Sachs either because of her major! That’s discrimination based on college major! Is this article a joke? I mean really? I mean, of all the quotes this barista gave for this article, she chooses to put this one? Its like they haven’t the slightest clue what it even means to work at GS. The barista works 40 hours a week, oh my little crybaby, so hard to make coffee. GS employees work 80 hours or more a week for years on end and they’re the top of… Read more »
She knows what all the letters after “Q” stand for, but doesn’t understand basic economics. The worst part is, once the wage gets raised, you’re locked in. Can’t roll it back. But again, basic economics…
Don’t laugh, AOC was a bartender before being a member of congress
Yep. Hand picked by globalist interests to further their agenda, and run as a fresh face in a predominantly Hispanic area of Queens.