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Read that again. A Walmart General Manager is the top leader at a facility responsible for billions of dollars in inventory and hundreds of employees. That person earns $218,317, which is at the high end for that role. Meanwhile, the Vice President of Operations at the Greater Chicago Food Depository—who has a much less demanding logistical role—earns $353,845. That’s $135,000 more than the top executive at a for-profit organization."
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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The Feed Our Families fraud uncovered in MN is the tip of the iceberg, folks. Similar fraud has only begun to be discovered in ME, WA and elsewhere and was exposed several years ago in MA, getting the whistleblower fired from his government oversight position when he exposed it. I’d wager a thorough vetting in IL would make MN pale in comparison.
This is how weak our churches have become. Church use to provide this kind of service and care, but now has coward to the government and the slime that use this as a money grab. Shame on our faith based churches. Maybe read starting at ( Matthew 25: 34 )
In IL alone, Catholic Charities had 2M in covid “ loans “ forgiven.
It is a shame that people choose to profit excessively while claiming to help poor people. Greed is the Root of all evil. Just another way of stealing from the taxpayers. No group does it better than the governments of Illinois.
the goal of a valid charity should be to put itself out of business by solving the issues which required it’s creation. instead, they use people’s empathy & compassion to raise funds and support their huge salaries & benefits which are far in excess of the average donors they are begging from. sadly there are many of these types of corporate charities which are basically fund raising machines, especially in the area’s of disease research and religious institutions. the last thing that org’s such as MS & diabetes foundations want is for their agencies to become irrelevant because that means… Read more »
Ever since Elizabeth Dole’s salary was revealed, the charities have been on a binge of over-compensating CEO’s. This certainly calls into question the charitable impulses of the individuals who get such jobs. Similarly, one expects or knows that those jobs are based on some sort of political patronage or influence. The top three executives of a Michigan charity (one of the largest) — a) amended a pension plan to permit lump sum distributions based on the present value of their pensions; b) waited until interest rates were low enough to result in lump sums of >$1 million each; and c)… Read more »
This is an interesting and informative article, but it is not surprising. There obviously have to be reasons why we spend billions of dollars each year to solve the supposed problem of hunger in America, which somehow never gets solved. Meanwhile, a majority of the population is overweight, with nearly half actually obese. These facts cannot co-exist without a huge amount of chicanery, if not outright fraud, going on in the programs.
I think the article is on the right track, however I don’t think distribution center managers are the right compensation comparison due to a lack of marketing responsibility and lower scope of purchasing and other corporate centralized responsibilities in their roles. I am sure there are smaller grocers or f&b producers with CEOs and top executives who old would be a better comparison.