Having to stand before a judge and explain why a child is not regularly attending school is a great deterrent to chronic school absenteeism, a retired police officer writes.
More green infrastructure in Chicago would help prevent flooding and provide other benefits, but projects must include money to gather monitoring data.
The rule of thumb is that any structure built before 1978 has lead paint. So one must ask why hasn’t the Chicago Public School mitigated this danger from all of its buildings?
Retirees on Social Security fall behind
As a result in part of federal stimulus efforts during the pandemic, as well as a hike in the minimum wage, prices have gone sky-high. They have risen beyond the ability of seniors on Social Security to meet their essential needs. There’s talk now of an increase in Social Security benefits, but it had better be huge.
I find it ironic that millions of Americans are on unemployment when in fact they can work. Older retired Americans worked all their adult years, earned their retirement and paid all those years into Social Security. I have a federal pension, having worked for the Post Office, that needs to be hiked, too. I get very little in the way of Social Security, but I’m speaking up here for other seniors.