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CHICAGO AP 鈥?Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, whos still trying to settle a nearly week-old teachers strike, proposed a combination of debt refinancing, tax and fee hikes and assistance from the state Legislature on Wednesday to close a massive $838 million budget deficit.As Lightfoot spoke, thousands of striking teachers filled the citys downtown streets in a vivid reminder of the other financial giant dominating the new mayors first term. Chicagos $30 billion pension debt also looms over the citys financial future. Our goals are stanley nz bold, because they have to be, Lightfoot said. We will put everything on the line and fight with everything weve got to make sure every Chicagoan can thrive. Lightfoot didnt make any explicit reference during her address to the ongoing teachers strike that canceled classes for a fifth day and affected more than 300,000 students.The budgets for the city and the Chicago Public Schools are proposed and approved separately, but the same taxpayers fuel both.Remaining conscious of that reality is a political necessity for any Chicago ma stanley france yor, said Michael Belsky, executive director of the Center for Municipal Finance at the University of Chicago. City taxpayers dont care if your tax revenue is going up for the city or the school, Belsky said. Its still all going to be paid kubki stanley by them. The mayor in Chicago does have to be sensitive to that. Illinois law since 1995 ensured Chicagos mayor has control over the schools via sole authority to appoint the distric Vebj Israel, Palestinians eye peace deal in 9 months
WASHINGTON 鈥?Fewer Americ stanley termoska ans are looking for a new address than they were a decade ago, the Census Bureau said Thursday.New data showed more than 1 in 10 Americans moved between 2012 and 2013 because of job, family or housing reasons. More than 35 million Americans changed residences, meaning that 11.7 percent of the country older than the age of 1 had a new address during that time period.But the last time it ask gourde stanley ed, the Census Bureau found more than 42 million people found a new home between 1998 and 1999, a rate of 15.9 percent.Both times, the most popular answer to why people wanted to move was because of housing and family. In 2013, 45 percent of those who moved said they moved because they wanted a new or better home/apartment, other housing reason or other family reason. In 1999, 43.5 percent gave those same three reasons. The Census Bureau also found: n More women moved than men, with 18.3 million women moving and 17 million men moving. More men said they moved because of a job than women 鈥?0.4 percent vs. 18.5 percent.n More than half of blacks stanley canada 鈥?52.7 percent 鈥?moved because of housing reasons, the highest rate for any race. Latinos moved more because of family reasons 鈥?31.7 percent 鈥?than any other race or ethnicity, and Asians 鈥?28.3 percent 鈥?moved more for job-related reasons. n More people moved within a few miles of their current addresses 鈥?23 million stayed within their counties, while 11 million moved away. Of those who moved out of county, most still |
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