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on Sunday July 09 2017, @07:09AM
from the can-you-plan-to-fail...-and-succeed? dept.
from the can-you-plan-to-fail...-and-succeed? dept.
CHICAGO — To graduate from a public high school in Chicago, students will soon have to meet a new and unusual requirement: They must show that they’ve secured a job or received a letter of acceptance to college, a trade apprenticeship, a gap year program or the military.
To make this stranger, all the students automatically meet this requirement since they are pre-approved for a community college:
A top CPS official also acknowledged, however, that every Chicago public high school graduate essentially already meets the new standard because graduation guarantees admittance to the City Colleges of Chicago community college system.
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Chicago Won't Allow High School Students to Graduate Without a Plan for the Future
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 09 2017, @11:05PM
The financial sector extracts wealth from the economy.
It produces nothing.
...and they've been doing that in greater and greater quantities for the last 4 decades.
If cities and states and the nation were to do things intelligently, they'd form their own publicly-owned banks.
Instead of having the interest on money collected from the populace going to the privatized parasites, all of that money could be funding projects that benefit the populace (AKA "paying ourselves interest").
Note that they already do this in North Dakota.
They've been doing it for over a century.
They weathered The Great Depression better than the other states and are doing likewise in the Bush-Obama-Trump Depression.
A really smart gal [google.com] ran for Treasurer of California on the Green Party ticket with this as her platform.
(I voted for her.)
...and The Orange Clown's favorite president is Andrew Jackson, who killed off the Second Bank of the United States and brought on The Panic of 1837 (a depression that lasted 1837 - 1842).
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