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In 2019, the city of about 75,000 just north of Chicago committed to spend $10 million over 10 years on local reparations. Dozens of other municipalities across the U.S. have taken initial steps toward reparations since.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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How pompous for Evanston to want to set up a program “for the whole country.” How naive for Evanston to think they speak “for the whole country.”
In light of the court’s most recent ruling about affirmative action, it’s likely that Evanston’s reparations program is illegal under the 14th amendment. Especially if it’s state or local money. If the federal government can’t discriminate based on race, then the state can’t discriminate either. No mention of this in the article.