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As of Friday, there were 4,878 asylum-seekers in 13 city-run shelters and 460 waiting in police stations, according to a statement from Office of Emergency Management and Communications spokesperson Mary May.
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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Biden administration gave these new migrants easy unfettered entry-access to US via illegal on-foot border-crossings.
Biden administration didn’t promise then a “Bed of Roses”, nor are they concerned by new costs to taxpayers to house, feed, medically treat, educate, employ, and/or otherwise acclimate these new migrants to American life-style expectations.
Why aren’t regular US citizen homeless allowed to use the police stations to sleep in as homeless shelters?, or places to recieve donations?, or per articale as a pick-up location for day labor jobs paying $150-$160 a day (are these employers deducting all taxes, paying city min wage, etc?)? What are the criteria/requirements to qualify using CPD stations as your shelters? Or maybe they can and they simply aren’t a where? In my NW side neighborhood we got all kinds of folks living in the parks, CTA bus shelters, etc