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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

Among other things, she handles the structuring and sale of bonds for schools across the state. There has been a structural gap in Chicago’s Corporate Fund budget since at least 2003. From 2003 to 2012, these projects have ranged from $54.2 First let''s go over Culpepper''s background. million to $102 million.

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We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability

Harvard Business

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. The cost of a bachelor’s degree from a public college has risen by one-third from 2003 to 2014.