On Halloween, the Illinois General Assembly voted on a $1.5 billion funding package for public transit in Chicago. This budget funds the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra, and PACE, in addition to replacing…
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Join the Fight to Democratize ComEd
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The Standard Economic Theory of Rent is Ideological Fiction
Introduction In this paper I will demonstrate: A) that the standard economics theory…