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Wirepoints President Ted Dabrowski appeared on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight to breakdown Chicago’s record $16.7 billion budget and what it means for Chicagoans. The federal money in the budget is set to leave Chicago with a bigger fiscal cliff when it dries up.
Wirepoints Pieces:
Audio and summary linked here.
A mess of uncertainty and litigation is sure to follow.
Summary and audio linked here.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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Seriously does anyone actually believe that government funds will ever actually run out….
I find it interesting the Wirepoints is brought in to provide the counterpoint to an agency embedded in the government. Literally, you have to counter a research outfit (Government Finance Research Center) embedded in a school (College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs) in a public, taxpayer-funded university (UIC).
Do I find it amusing that Dr. Carroll leapfrogged Amanda Kass to be the Director of the Government Finance Research Center? Yes. Yes I do. My hope is that Carroll can put her biases aside in her research. Kass certainly wasn’t able to.