New Documentary Explores Responsibility For Pandemic School Closures – City Journal

Union leaders were one of the main proponents of stricter public school Covid measures. Their goal, in the words of American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, was justice. “Justice is our middle name. It is the lens through which we do all of our work. Climate justice is racial justice. It is worker justice. It is gender justice,” said Weingarten in a clip included in the documentary. The actress Jane Fonda went further, saying “Covid is God’s gift to the Left.”

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Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer: Chicago pension buyout plan mostly shifts debt rather than eliminating it, property tax surge doubles inflation over three decades

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.

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