Schooling in the Ownership Society: Obama: Wall Street protests show a "broad-based frustration"

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Obama: Wall Street protests show a "broad-based frustration":

Obama: Wall Street protests show a "broad-based frustration"

by Mike Klonsky

President Obama speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House. (Saul Loeb / AFP/Getty Images/ 10/6/2011

President Obama said Thursday that the Occupy Wall Street protests show a "broad-based frustration" among Americans about how the U.S. financial system works.

"I think it expresses the frustrations the American people feel, that we had the biggest

Shining a new light on Daley's After School Matters

by Mike Klonsky

It looks like they're finally going after Daley's cash-cow after-school program which was used as back entrance to the old City Hall patronage system. According to this morning'sSun-Times:

After School Matters, the charity founded by Chicago’s former first lady Maggie Daley to occupy and educate teenagers, received $915,000 in contributions over a ten-year period from companies that got subsidies from the city, the city’s inspector general concluded Tuesday. (Read the report here.)

I don't know why this story is just breaking. Back in 2006, I blogged about Gov. Blago's funneling of state education funds to politically-favored programs, like the dollar-bloated after-school program/political patronage