December 10, 2017
Two in a row! Chicago Public Schools chief fired for corruption
Rahm Emanuel didn’t have to search very far for the replacement Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett when she was fired in 2015. After the wheels of justice turned all the way, she sobbed in court last April upon beingsentenced to four-a-half years in prison “for scheming to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks in return for steering lucrative contracts.”
Rahm’s choice for the job was his old friend and longtime aide, Forrest Claypool. After all, “it’s the Chicago way” to keep political appointments that hand out lucrative contracts among friends.
But then again, it’s also The Chicago Way to see corrupt officials forced out of their jobs --sometimes sequentially. And that is what just happened, as Mr. Claypool put on his own public display of sorrow with sad faces all around:
…with Claypool resigning his $250,000-a-year job, acknowledging “stupid mistakes” that unsparingly were laid bare by an ethics investigation of his good friend, top CPS lawyer Ron Marmer.
Who knew that is was against the rules to steer contracts to companies in which you have a financial stake? Apparently not the CEO of the Chicago Public Schools?
Under the school system’s ethics code, officials can’t supervise the work of any CPS contractor with whom they have a “business relationship.” And Marmer was getting a $1 million severance package from Jenner & Block, in five $200,000 yearly installments through 2018.
He hired his former law firm for major litigation, even as he was receiving money from them.
My prediction is that Chicago will run out of money before it runs out of corrupt politicians. I’d say that’s a safe bet.
CHICAGO: THE FACE OF A NATION IN SHAMBLES
CHICAGO’S BLACK GANG LAND…. Is what happens when
bankster Rahm Emanuel and his corrupt
Obama party turned the city under!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2017/08/state-of-illinois-in-economic-meltdown.html
Restriction" Published in American Affairs
notable for Murray's revelation that, despite his
libertarian instincts, he had come around to the
position that we should "shut down low-skill
immigration for a while" to encourage more
Americans to rejoin the labor force.
Murray's announcement is not the panel's only legacy, however. Amy Wax and I realized that the material from our own presentations would combine nicely into a long-form essay. Now, one year later, that essay appears in the latest issue of American Affairs. Our essay is unique in that it combines "top-down" Census Bureau data on native job losses with "bottom-up" ethnographic research on employer preferences for immigrant labor.
"Low-Skill Immigration: A Case for
Restriction" Published in American Affairs
By Jason Richwine
CIS Blog, November 21, 2017
Excerpt: Last fall, I participated in a CIS panel entitled "Immigration and Less-Educated American Workers", alongside University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax and political scientist Charles Murray. The panel was perhaps most
notable for Murray's revelation that, despite his
libertarian instincts, he had come around to the
position that we should "shut down low-skill
immigration for a while" to encourage more
Americans to rejoin the labor force.
Murray's announcement is not the panel's only legacy, however. Amy Wax and I realized that the material from our own presentations would combine nicely into a long-form essay. Now, one year later, that essay appears in the latest issue of American Affairs. Our essay is unique in that it combines "top-down" Census Bureau data on native job losses with "bottom-up" ethnographic research on employer preferences for immigrant labor.
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