Friday, October 25, 2019

From Woke to Broke

"The fact is there is no more money. Period," says Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot.

She's talking about the teachers' strike that has paralyzed her city's public schools-enrollment 360,000-for the past week.

The public employee union is demanding more: more money for salaries, more support staff, more teachers per student.

Chicago Public Schools has run a deficit for the past seven years.

Public policy inspired by the ethic of social justice inflames the tension between progressive leaders and the voting public.

Want to be a progressive? Claim credit for resolving a crisis of your own making after threatening to unleash state power on private actors responding to price signals.

Rising numbers of homeless have led to a breakdown of public order in areas of Los Angeles and San Francisco.

https://freebeacon.com/columns/from-woke-to-broke/

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