By Brian Costin
04/29/2013
Tax Increment Financing, or TIF, districts are a controversial economic development tool – and there is no concrete evidence they actually work. In fact, a study from professors at the University of Chicago and Lake Forest College showed that Illinois communities with TIF districts “grew substantially slower than non-adopters.” By law, TIFs are intended to promote economic...
By Brian Costin
03/31/2013
WBEZ in Chicago has published one of the more incomplete stories on charter schools Ive read in a long time. It asserts: Charter advocates and even the Chicago Tribune editorial board say 19,000 kids are on charter school waiting lists in the city.
by Collin Hitt Trib columnist Clarence Page got some $@%^ with his recent book purchase: “Oh, that (expletive) movie is so full of (expletive),” the young woman [who worked at the bookstore] muttered. “Waiting for Superman,” said the book’s title. Page was purchasing the companion book to the movie of the same super title. “Waiting for Superman”...
by Ashley Muchow Long has it been the case that Washington politicians turn to the Zandi multiplier to justify stimulus spending under the conjecture that such spending triggers economic growth. Mark Zandi, of Moody’s Economy.com, is regularly consulted by politicians and the press for his “Fiscal Economic Bang for the Buck” chart postulating that spending initiatives, such...
