Ralph Martire: The structural shortcomings that produce racial inequities – Daily Herald

Ralph Martire is executive director of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability and the Arthur Rubloff Professor of Public Policy at Roosevelt University.
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Tom Paine's Ghost
3 years ago

Isnt this guy the beloved SEIU, AFSCME financial apologist? What a buffoon.

chumpchange
3 years ago

Always someone else to blame for their failed ideology.

Ralph, it’s your Democratic run wards, cities, counties, and states that have failed blacks for decades by encouraging the destruction of the family and reliance on the state.

Clearly Black Lives don’t Matter to Dems. Only black votes. The evidence permeates the “institutions” your party has run forever in our nation’s inner-cities.

The motivation for your hand-wringing in a presidential election year is obvious to an increasing number of Americans, black, brown, and white.

debtsor
3 years ago

I believe it’s inequitable and unjust to take hard earned local tax dollars from the suburbs and downstate, and redistribute it to Chicago.

Freddy
3 years ago

There is more than enough money funneled into education but most of it is going to salaries-healthcare-maintenance-pensions-construction/etc and not into the classroom. Total education costs in Illinois from all sources (mostly taxpayers) is around $28-$30 billion. $14-15K per student for 2 Million students. State minimum requirements per pupil is approx $6,500. Here in Rockford private schools charge about $7K vs 15K public. We have found out how ill prepared public schools are for at home learning even with $30B annual budget. Yet there is still not enough money.

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