The costs and profits of school closings: 2 dead, 14 wounded on one Sunday alone
How much profit is being made by closing schools? Yes, profit.
In Chicago as 50 schools are being closed for lack of funds, Mayor Emanuel is giving away hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks and incentives to his campaign contributors and assorted politically connected organizations. He even gave away over $77 million in cash from the “education fund” for another basketball arena for a private Catholic university, DePaul. But, much bigger profits are being made by his insider buddies who are gobbling-up the blighted property and lands for pennies on the dollar. There will be plenty of land for new railroad yards, plus lots of gentrification projects and hotels (location-location-location) – once these targeted areas are gutted and emptied. Emptied of people.
Close 50 schools and force children to cross horrific landscapes of crime-riddled killing fields – no exaggeration. Increase or ignore the blight and create the profit potential. This Sunday afternoon and night 14 people were wounded and 2 were killed. One was directly beneath a designated “Safe Passage” sign. Read HERE and HERE.
(Disclosure: One 18 year old girl was wounded while walking with her aunt. A gun was fired somewhere in the distance on 71st and Wood St. on Chicago’s south-side. That is two