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Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration has denied migrants are being turned away from shelters. But as city leaders scramble to find more housing for thousands of people, organizers and local leaders also are hustling to help migrants they say aren’t easily finding support through the city.
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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You can pay for excessive pensions or you can pay for excessive services but eventually you run out of other people’s money.
Treat them nice as they are the future of Chicago.
Everyone else is running for the exit door.
The correct phrase is: Criminal Illegal Immigrants. They will be deported.
These people are being housed one way or another with taxpayer’s money that would be better spent on lowering the pension shortfalls…
maybe open up the Old Navy and all the other empty storefronts on mich ave as migrant/ homeless shelters? Isn’t it the only equitable thing to do!!
but seriously, I can think of numerous state & city facilities in my nw side neighborhood that sit empty or are only minimally used….but I’ll keep my mouth shut—I don’t want anybody getten any ideas, don’t want my nimby neighbors getten upset
Spot on. Repurpose State Street into public charge housing.
JB, why don’t you house them in Hyatt hotels?