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Nearly half of Chicago's young black men are out of work, out of school
.chicagonow.com ^ | 25 Jan 2016 | Austin Berg,

Posted on 01/25/2016 3:38:15 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT

Anecdotal evidence surrounding Chicago City Council’s Dec. 2, 2014, vote to hike the minimum wage by 58 percent over four and a half years suggests this trend will continue.

The owner of the iconic Original Rainbow Cone ice cream shop in Beverley said she would be forced to cut the number of students her business employs over the summer by half. A Panera Bread location cited the hike when it decided to close, as did Home Run Inn pizza when it killed plans to open a new location in Portage Park.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Government
KEYWORDS: chicago; illinois; notmyfault; obamalegacy
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You get what you vote for; maybe.

Something about unintended consequences.

"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."

1 posted on 01/25/2016 3:38:15 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Just the way DemocRATS want it.


2 posted on 01/25/2016 3:38:54 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Oh but Common Core will save them.


3 posted on 01/25/2016 3:40:19 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (how many laws has Cruz sponsored that have become law?)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

This wont turn out good.


4 posted on 01/25/2016 3:41:37 PM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Perhaps they prefer not working and not going to school.


5 posted on 01/25/2016 3:42:48 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Most inner city Dindus do nuffin. Ain’t no thing...we just give them heroes cash to spread around.


6 posted on 01/25/2016 3:44:50 PM PST by soycd
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“Bush’s fault”


7 posted on 01/25/2016 3:46:15 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Because those greedy Republicans run city government.

Oh, wait...


8 posted on 01/25/2016 3:48:10 PM PST by samtheman (Elect Trump, Build Wall. End Censorship.)
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To: stocksthatgoup

Make that Common CoreRuption .. More apt description.


9 posted on 01/25/2016 3:49:57 PM PST by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: stocksthatgoup
One of the designers of Common Core is Bill Ayers.

Jus sayin.

10 posted on 01/25/2016 3:51:15 PM PST by Slyfox (Ted Cruz does not need the presidency - the presidency needs Ted Cruz)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Ultimately, man makes his own destiny. You can blame Dunderhead. You can put your hopes in Dunderhead. But no one can live your life for you. My primary criticism of ‘black leaders’, is that they spend so much time blaming everybody, and everything, but they don’t go back to the community, grab the young man by his lapels, and tell him to straighten up and fly right. So, you get what you get.


11 posted on 01/25/2016 3:52:24 PM PST by fhayek
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Isn't this where the ‘community campaigner’ lived, and isn't this where his ‘muslim library’ going to be?

And isn't this where he was going to church with Rev. Wright? And poor Moosebutt will have to go back to this poor city and live?

They could have done so much for the Black Community and all they did was walk all over the top of every single one of them...no wonder America is in the shape it's in, another year of the ‘community campaigner’ and America would really look like the ghetto of Chicago...

12 posted on 01/25/2016 3:52:37 PM PST by HarleyLady27 ("The Force Awakens"!!! TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP;TRUMP!!! 100%)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Shall we lay down some general facts:

1. Blacks cause more crime. It causes others to fear them.
2. Blacks bring down property values. It causes others to avoid them.
3. Blacks are less educated. It causes others to disrespect them.

When you are feared, avoided, and disrespected, you are generally a loser. Blacks are the loser class in America. No other sub-population comes close, except (perhaps a big stretch) for poor Appalachian white and reservation natives.

Hispanics are similar, but there is one thing going for them — they have great work ethic, especially the uneducated illegals. All the mcmansions (read: housing industry) are built by illegal hispanic laborers hired by their white contractor masters. There is no incentive for anyone with power/money/influence to curb this source of cheap labor.


13 posted on 01/25/2016 3:53:12 PM PST by sagar
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Perhaps they prefer not working

For some, true.
Many years back, I worked in the projects of Chicago, Robert Taylor, Cabrini-Green,Wells...

Not only do most want to work, they in fact do work!
Each morning the parking lots go from over full to near empty.

14 posted on 01/25/2016 3:57:27 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (BINGO!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

How’s that hope and change working out for you?


15 posted on 01/25/2016 3:59:15 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: AlaskaErik

“Just the way DemocRATS want it.”

Actually, it’s the unions who want it.


16 posted on 01/25/2016 4:06:25 PM PST by DugwayDuke
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To: Awgie

Chuck Berry, from the 1950’s -

“School Days”

Up in the mornin’ and out to school
The teacher is teachin’ the Golden Rule
American history and practical math
You study’ em hard and hopin’ to pass
Workin’ your fingers right down to the bone
And the guy behind you won’t leave you alone

Ring ring goes the bell
The cook in the lunchroom’s ready to sell
You’re lucky if you can find a seat
You’re fortunate if you have time to eat
Back in the classroom open you books
Gee but the teacher don’t know
How mean she looks

Soon as three o’clock rolls around
You finally lay your burden down
Close up your books, get out of your seat

Down the halls and into the street
Up to the corner and ‘round the bend
Right to the juke joint you go in

Drop the coin right into the slot
You gotta hear something that’s really hot

With the one you love you’re makin’ romance
All day long you been
Wantin’ to dance
Feelin’ the music from head to toe
‘Round and ‘round and ‘round you go

Drop the coin right into the slot
You gotta hear something that’s really hot

Hail, hail rock’n’roll
Deliver me from the days of old
Long live rock’n’roll
The beat of the drum is loud and bold
Rock rock rock’n’roll
The feelin’ is there body and soul

Something has been lost, regrettably and perhaps forever, since those halcyon days....


17 posted on 01/25/2016 4:06:42 PM PST by alloysteel (If I considered the consequences of my actions, I would rarely do anything.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Only half???


18 posted on 01/25/2016 4:07:03 PM PST by PGR88
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To: DUMBGRUNT

They are not out of work, they just don’t want to work.


19 posted on 01/25/2016 4:12:57 PM PST by dznutz
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libtards don’t care. If blacks are out of work they will vote for more libtards to give them more welfare. It’s all good


20 posted on 01/25/2016 4:28:26 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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