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In an experimental program, 5,000 Chicagoans received monthly cash payments from the city for a year, no strings attached. The $6,000 Moore will receive from the Resilient Communities Pilot won’t, on its own, enable Moore to buy a house, for instance. But repairing her credit has allowed her to entertain the idea as a real possibility.
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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Academic twitter right now is in a tizzy over an economist (Melissa Kearney) who wrote a new book that suggests children raised by two married parents do better than children raised by single parents. She calls it the “two-parent privilege” because beyond financial considerations, it is also about parental time investment and familial stability. Shocker, right? In response, the progressives in academia are going crazy over the suggestion that men should marry the women who bear their children. One prominent academic suggested this was going backwards and losing 50 years of feminist progress. Another academic said that she read the… Read more »
Actually the article does mention fathers, tho a big vaguely. “Moore’s longtime partner, Reggie Sr., is father to both Reggie and Ziniya. He lived with the family on and off until he and Moore split for good in 2016. They remain amicable coparents to the three siblings, including Ryan, whose father was shot and killed in 2021.)”
Anyhow, this is one particular woman who seems to be trying to make the best of things and gets genuine benefit from the subsidy. Whether she’s typical…. who knows?
All of this was laid out in 1965 in the Moynihan Report. But progressives are always right, no matter the evidence to the contrary. They will continue to scream racism to their last breath.
There’s no good reason she needs to be continually struggling in low – paying retail jobs. There are plenty of free training programs (WIOA is one, as I’m a WIOA Career Coach) that would open the door to better – paying jobs and a better life. There are good job training opportunities in even the poorest parts of Chicago, but you have to take the initiative to explore them…
Fake News Fraud Shit-Rag Chicago Magazine Slobbers All Over Chicago’s Latest Taxpayer Dollar Welfare Giveaway
Come on… did you read the article? ugh – I get it, but don’t be so cruel!
Yeah, no.