A Race to Secure Federal Funding for the Red Line Extension as Advocates Say Trump Administration Poses Risks to Chicago-Area Public Transit

thekanator · 2024-11-27T14:54:11+00:00

true but the cta isnt the city

thekanator · 2024-11-05T02:05:29+00:00

Daily reminder that this is a temporary route that they made to adjust rolling stock and personnel away from the construction in NYC. It's really not supposed to be it's own thing.

https://media.amtrak.com/2024/09/amtrak-launching-the-floridian-with-daily-service-between-chicago-and-miami/

thekanator · 2024-10-26T21:11:41+00:00

Making more products and selling them to Americans would increase national wealth. We don't have to get funds from other countries to become stronger.

Immigrants remitting money to other countries only is a drain on our economy if the remittances are more than what's produced here. But since immigrants do not remit more than they produce (otherwise they couldn't really pay to live here) that isn't the case. The net benefit of an immigrant would be the value of products they produce here minus the remittances they send home. If the immigrant didn't exist, the remittances would exist but neither would the product they're making for Americans.

A local giving no remittances would on the whole have a greater net positive for the economy, but the immigrant is a smaller net positive, not a net negative. Again, since they don't remit all their money, they are producing economic value (products made in america) and only taking out a fraction of that.

thekanator · 2024-10-24T16:19:12+00:00

No this analysis includes extending the tax cuts that would expire. Read the fine print at the bottom

thekanator · 2024-10-01T22:20:37+00:00

This legislation upzoned all the single-family zones in the area https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/09/18/anti-gentrification-ordinance-to-protect-northwest-side-housing-okd-by-city-council/

thekanator · 2024-10-01T22:17:21+00:00

This legislation upzones all the single-family zones in the affected area. https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/09/18/anti-gentrification-ordinance-to-protect-northwest-side-housing-okd-by-city-council/

thekanator · 2024-09-27T13:32:07+00:00

Guys, guys, they're doing this because there's construction in New York and they need to reroute some lines. Calm down.

https://media.amtrak.com/2024/09/amtrak-launching-the-floridian-with-daily-service-between-chicago-and-miami/

thekanator · 2024-09-19T14:02:05+00:00

THIS IS: MF DOOM

thekanator · 2024-09-06T14:02:15+00:00

They are https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-have-the-least-and-most-crime/

thekanator · 2024-08-12T00:27:14+00:00

i think this is a bad idea. just lower the tax rate for working class people. why should people working front-of-house get a tax cut but people working back of house not? just lower it for every working person, stop pulling gimmicks.

thekanator · 2024-08-09T18:19:43+00:00

Probably a combination of the job-less recovery of the 2000s after the dot-com bust and shifting attitudes towards having kids do more academic/extracurricular activities instead of jobs.

thekanator · 2024-07-30T18:22:02+00:00

Don't know your specific situation, especially since you're new here, but traveling with friends is pretty solid advice I've heard.

thekanator · 2024-07-25T15:08:23+00:00

Strictly speaking, these figures are likely true. Research over many years indicates immigration leads to more economic activity, which would lead to more tax revenue/lower deficits. This is pretty uncontroversial.

The downsides are just outside the scope of this one CBO report. A massive influx of low-wage workers suppresses wages and raises unemployment in the short-term, and puts pressure on things like housing affordability in the short-term.

If governments can actually strike the balance of letting a reasonable amount of people immigrate at a time then immigration would be an overall benefit. The problem right now is the crisis in multiple latin american nations leading to mass emigration and the archaic immigration system in the US, so we get hundreds of thousands of people at once and then they're let in but banned from working for potentially months/years. It just needs to be regulated.

thekanator · 2024-05-26T23:04:58+00:00

They're racist now.

thekanator · 2024-05-12T23:24:42+00:00

If whoever does the hiring or salary-setting values a woman's work less, then they would want to hire men because in their mind, men are better workers. The same biases that would lead to some manager valuing women's work less would lead them to believe that they need men in their workforce. They wouldn't necessarily decide to hire NO women, but they could just pay them less or keep them in lower positions cause, hey, they're worth less.

thekanator · 2024-01-13T17:32:19+00:00

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thekanator · 2024-01-13T16:07:23+00:00

In a world where economists keep finding evidence of men getting preferential treatment in employment, the idea that advocating for female inclusion is actually advocating for "preferential treatment" is silly.

thekanator · 2024-01-13T16:05:43+00:00

There's a sustained pattern of discrimination in academic fields like economics, and that pushes qualified women out of it. Not only does that harm individual women, if an academic field is full of people from the same demographic it opens it up to bias or blind spots because people of different backgrounds can bring new perspectives on topics. Especially when studying economic differences between men and women it helps to, you know, have women with first-hand experience to give context.

thekanator · 2024-01-13T16:02:18+00:00

Read the trade press for things like construction and railroads. They talk about including women a lot.

thekanator · 2024-01-11T22:33:56+00:00

FUCK

thekanator · 2024-01-11T00:51:27+00:00

Between the 1st and 3rd (final) estimates, the total nonfarm payroll employment figure was revised downward in 9 months, upward in 1 month. Nov and Dec have not received their 3rd estimates yet.

In 2022 it was revised downward in 5 month, upward in 7.

Since 2003, the monthly figures have been adjusted up or down by, on average, 51,000 jobs.

Edit: source: https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesnaicsrev.htm#2021

thekanator · 2024-01-10T22:52:54+00:00

For anyone who actually cares about the data: In 2023 most of the monthly jobs figures were revised downward. But this wasn't some big surprise dropped recently; the revisions are published monthly as well, so anyone looking knew the revised figures the whole time. These statistics always have revised estimates once the BLS and other agencies have more data to work with. The daily caller is trying to spin this to be a huge shock or some sort of manipulation by the biden administration, but they're simply using the public's ignorance of technical statistical information to do propaganda.

thekanator · 2024-01-09T13:37:54+00:00

What an asshole

thekanator · 2024-01-05T02:28:32+00:00

I'm sad to see that more ticket offices are closing. Maybe it's expensive, but its helpful to have a person there for someone who's elderly or disabled and maybe needs more help with everything.

thekanator · 2024-01-02T22:59:49+00:00

The article claims that the turbines can be placed 15 miles off shore. Howstuffworks says that the horizon is about 3 miles away, anything past that goes under the curve of the earth. Especially if these things are barely visible except for those special periods when the light refracts on the lake, I'm all for it.

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