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With thousands of small businesses still awaiting their share of $71 million in unspent Cook County Covid relief funds, Cook County has, for now, shut down a controversial grant program, which prioritized distributing the funds to Black-, Latino- and LGBTQ-owned businesses, among other “historically excluded populations.” That move comes as the county seeks to thwart a lawsuit alleging the grant distribution plan amounts to illegal discrimination against businesses owned by people not included on the ”historically excluded” list.
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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When race is a standard for eligibility, it’s racist. Plain and simple.
It amazes me that ‘affirmative action’ wasn’t struck down decades ago – it’s racist.
With all the touting of racism that isn’t really racism, TRUE racism is overlooked.
BTW: In case you didn’t know, Mayor Pete … roads are NOT racist and judging people in hardhats by the color of their skin IS racist.
That that’s one stupid, incompetent, self-indulgent chicken!
Here is a whimsical thought. Since the money has not been distributed apply it to the pension liabilities. Horrible thought to the politicians…pay the bills on time.
(I know that this is probably impossible to do at this point and is an ad hominum but it was just a “whimsical thought. LOL pay bills on time)
Straight White Male business owner, shut up and pay your taxes. If you do not like it, you can leave. And Ken Griffen did just that, others should give it serious thought also.
Broken promises by Il politicians. Millions of kids cannot perform at grade level, Il is 51st in financial condition; #1-3 in corruption; #1-3 in overall tax burden; rampant crime; and unfunded pension and medical benefits estimated by some in the $0.5T range hanging over non public union Il taxpayers. Nice work.
Big Doc, Big Pharm and Big Hospital just love having Illinois taxpayers pay pretty much whatever they’d like to charge for retired public-employee health care, rather than having public-employee retirees enroll in the Medicare benefits that they’re eligible for.
Since Illinois typically pays those bills late – often more than a year late, not having enough tax dollars on hand to pay them when billed – they also get to bank the generous taxpayer-funded late-payment penalties.
So, stymied in her effort – temporarily – to confine $71 million in Federal business-welfare tax dollars to LGBTQRX, Black and Hispanic ‘businesses,’ we learn that she’s now planning on using the remaining $30 some-odd-million they haven’t already given to reliably Democratic ‘businesses’ to promote ‘national guaranteed income.’ ‘Guaranteed income,’ of course, being the obfuscation of choice for racial-reparations among the White-people-bad Dem/Marxist/woke crowd. As unfortunate as things are in Illinois, it’s frightening to discover that every time someone kicks over a Guvmn’t rock in our state, and the Woke-n-Dem bugs scurry out of the light, we learn we’re actually… Read more »