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Development of the Green Era Campus was supported by a $3 million Rebuild Illinois Infrastructure grant. The project also won the first $10 million Chicago Prize in 2020. The campus has already created 15 full-time jobs on the South Side. More opportunities will become available as the campus continues to expand, with more than a third of positions accessible to people affected by the justice system, officials said.
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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Next in line they will process Soylent Green.
Governor WIFE-LOAD must love that place.
All he can eat, for free.
If it doesn’t need anymore government funding fine, if not close it, we are already funding enough hopeless ventures under JB
People working and the prospect of green energy without the Chinese making money off of it ( thus negating the possibility of some money getting stuck to politicians fingers along the way ) is every Dems nightmare. Call it another handout if you will, but at least it puts people to work that are paying taxes on their wages, something no other social services program does to my knowledge.
Another government program paid for by a bankrupt state. Sad this is the best Madiganistan can do.