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About $70 million in that fund would be set aside to provide medical care for migrants. That’s in addition to money already budgeted next year to treat this population, proposed budget documents show. About $20 million would flow to suburbs to help cover costs related to providing services for migrants, and about $10 million would be used to help communities with other disaster response and recovery efforts, such as record-setting rainstorms that have inundated many residents’ homes.
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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Before my grandfather could get a visa, he had to have a sponsor that guaranteed a place to work and a place to live. that a MAGA requirement.
If you add up all this nonsense for illegals coming from the County, it is heading to north of $450 million. Cook County taxpayers of course are indirectly picking up the tab for this but most are too dumb to understand it.
Where is the money going? At $450M for approx 16K jumpers a family of 4 is getting about $112,500 in benefits so they can live in police stations/O’Hare/on city streets and tent cities.
Highly inflated costs to give them each a bottle of water and a bag of O-KE-Doke popcorn.
Be sure to set aside some money for Taxwinkle. She’s obviously suffering from a severe case of brain shrinkage.
That hair makes her look like my brother’s Golden Doodle.
Your brother’s dog is highly offended by that comment!