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Chicago mayor wants $1 billion more for schools even though 43% of CPS teachers are chronically absent – Wirepoints Quickpoint
May 11, 2024
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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson recently traveled to Springfield with a big wish list, including $1 billion in extra funding for Chicago Public Schools. Among the reasons his demand should be categorically rejected: the growing rate of CPS teachers simply not showing up to school.
Negligence or something more? Gov. Pritzker’s $827 million in taxpayer subsidies for Rivian. – Wirepoints
May 10, 2024
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently promised electric car maker Rivian $827 million in taxpayer subsidies when he shouldn’t have given the company a penny. The question is, was it negligence or something more?
Chicago Teachers Union contract demands are totally divorced from reality – Wirepoints
May 8, 2024
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Details emerging about Chicago Teachers Union’s upcoming contract show just how divorced its demands, both extreme and expensive, are from the reality at Chicago schools. It’s not just about massive salary increases, but also about money for migrant students, climate initiatives, abortions and gender-affirming care. About blocking parental notification. Count on CTU’s demands to veer further from reality until the public finally says no.
Gov. Pritzker’s ‘ethics reform’ eliminates competitive elections and choice for voters – Wirepoints on AM 560 Chicago’s Morning Answer
May 8, 2024
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Ted joined Dan and Amy to talk about a new law passed by the Democratic supermajority and signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker that results in brazen election interference, keeping Republicans off ballots; about a referendum that tests the waters for a renewed progressive income tax hike; about how the Parental Notification referendum question was knocked off the ballot; and why laws like that pass so easily.
The issue on migration is the scale of the losses. Saying “this has happened for a long time” or “this happens to states around us” ignores that Illinois’ out-migration is accelerating and magnitudes higher than surrounding states.
Indiana often has net out-migration too, but their run-rate is less than 10,000 per year. Illinois is at 105,000/year.
Michigan used to lose 100k+ plus per year in their worst years 2007, 2008, 2009. Now with economic growth they’re losing about 40,000 per year on net.
He is probably confused on the difference between net out-migration and absolute population loss. Illinois has always for a long-time had net out-migration, but only recently was the net out-migration substantial enough to cause absolute population loss. Illinois has experienced net out-migration for decades, losing more people to other states than it has gained from other states. However, population always grew because the combination of more births than deaths and net gains on international immigration (like every other state) out-weighed the losses to other states. It’s only in the last two years that losses to other states out-weighed gains on… Read more »