Wirepoints Original Stories
The Social Contract Between Government and People Is Unraveling – Quicktake
Numbers, budgets, charts and graphs about government finances. That’s what we do here. We try to understand where public money should be spent and what it accomplishes.
Through that lens, it’s difficult to know where to begin on what has befallen the Chicago area and most of the country.
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Illinois’ COVID-19 crisis: Daily data update for May 31st, 2020 – Wirepoints
Daily COVID-19 data update for May 31st.
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“The longer the economy is shut, the worse Illinois’ revenues and deficits will be. Politicians expect jobless Illinoisans to pay for those deficits.” – Ted on the Illinois Channel
"You've got one million Illinoisans unemployed, nobody knows what's happening with the economy, we're only now starting to open up. And yet the government passed a record spending budget – the biggest ever – with no cuts, no furloughs, no kind of savings whatsoever to give relief to Illinoisans that have to pay for that government."
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Pritzker Wilts Hours Before United States Supreme Court Review, Double-Talks About-Face on Churches – Wirepoints
Was it because his “science and data” somehow changed? Or was it because he feared having his vast emergency powers challenged in the United States Supreme Court?
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Illinois government jobs protected, private sector jobs decimated during COVID-19 shutdown – Wirepoints
Two months and more than 800,000 lost jobs later, we now know which job sectors are the shutdown's biggest losers. The least impacted sector in Illinois? State government.
This should change the dynamics of public education as we know it . Many if not all K-12 private schools have learn at home protocols. High speed internet is needed for everyone. Khan Academy- Scholastic.org- TedEd and a few others have learn at home and at schools programs for those who implement them. Problem is that for many public schools are just highly compensated baby sitters for their kids. Who will teach the parents (many of whom are single mothers) on how to teach?
Think how much money CPS can save by using remote learning. No need for bloated administrative staffs, no need to pay huge heating, cooling and light bills, no need for school security officers and they could pare back the number of teachers. So many paradigms are being shattered with the virus, and if we come out of this OK things will never get back to the way they were before. If a restaurant is carry out only, they could reduce their footprint and have a kitchen no bigger than a food truck as an example.