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The Social Contract Between Government and People Is Unraveling – Quicktake
Numbers, budgets, charts and graphs about government finances. That’s what we do here. We try to understand where public money should be spent and what it accomplishes.
Through that lens, it’s difficult to know where to begin on what has befallen the Chicago area and most of the country.
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Illinois’ COVID-19 crisis: Daily data update for May 31st, 2020 – Wirepoints
Daily COVID-19 data update for May 31st.
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“The longer the economy is shut, the worse Illinois’ revenues and deficits will be. Politicians expect jobless Illinoisans to pay for those deficits.” – Ted on the Illinois Channel
"You've got one million Illinoisans unemployed, nobody knows what's happening with the economy, we're only now starting to open up. And yet the government passed a record spending budget – the biggest ever – with no cuts, no furloughs, no kind of savings whatsoever to give relief to Illinoisans that have to pay for that government."
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Pritzker Wilts Hours Before United States Supreme Court Review, Double-Talks About-Face on Churches – Wirepoints
Was it because his “science and data” somehow changed? Or was it because he feared having his vast emergency powers challenged in the United States Supreme Court?
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Illinois government jobs protected, private sector jobs decimated during COVID-19 shutdown – Wirepoints
Two months and more than 800,000 lost jobs later, we now know which job sectors are the shutdown's biggest losers. The least impacted sector in Illinois? State government.
What is wrong with using university dorms. Lots of empty beds. You would think the universities would be falling all over themselves to offer the state their facilities. I mean aren’t these places full of virtuous and magnanimous individuals
McCormick Place has lots of electrical outlets, internet and plumbing drains. It has huge parking lots. The infrastructure is just better there than some dorms.
You haven’t seen some of these new dorms? Plus many of these dorms are near hospitals.
Speaking of which, I wonder if the voracious unions at McCormick Place will be up to their usual tricks like requiring a union electrician whenever you plug a cord into the wall. Maybe that’s why Lightfoot picked it.
I guess some universities are doing this already … https://www.chronicle.com/article/If-Coronavirus-Patients/248288
Call it St Groot’s