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ভিডিওটি পুলিশের কোনো কর্মকর্তার হাসিনাকে উদ্ধৃত করে দেওয়া কোনো বক্তব্যের নয় বরং এআই প্রযুক্তিতে এটি তৈরি করা হয়েছে।
ভিডিওটি পুলিশের কোনো কর্মকর্তার হাসিনাকে উদ্ধৃত করে দেওয়া কোনো বক্তব্যের নয় বরং এআই প্রযুক্তিতে এটি তৈরি করা হয়েছে।
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Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Georgia nurses who have struggled with – and even overcome – addiction want to see the state adopt a less punitive approach to discipline that would remove some of the obstacles to treatment and employment. A bill before the state legislature that has broad bipartisan support as well as support from the state nursing board would change how Georgia handles such cases. The bill’s supporters say it’s an important tool to keep nurses in the workforce amid a nursing shortage, and an acknowledgement that addiction is a disease, not “a moral failing.” Healthbeat spoke to five nurses who have experienced addiction and to representatives of recovery organizations. They described how Georgia’s disciplinary system deterred them from seeking early treatment for fear of losing their licenses and their jobs. That’s because to get or renew a license, nurses must report treatment for alcohol or substance abuse within the past five years on the application. The acknowledgement triggers a lengthy, public, and costly disciplinary process. Courtney Robinson, who works at Northeast Georgia Health System, fought an alcohol addiction for years. She wanted to get treatment but worried that doing so would result in losing her license. When she finally got sober, she answered the question honestly during her license renewal, acknowledging a past addiction and stint in rehab. That started a process of establishing a consent order with the state nursing board. Consent orders are posted in a spreadsheet and in a searchable database on the Board of Nursing’s website, allowing anyone to look up disciplinary actions for a particular nurse. Robinson’s order requires that she participate in weekly support groups as well as regular and random drug screening for five years. It also requires quarterly reports from employers to the nursing board and restricts Robinson from working in some roles, including assignments through a nursing agency and in-home nursing. “As far as jobs, it is very difficult, unless you have some connections or know somebody, to find a decent nursing job with a consent order,” Robinson said. Nurses said the costs of medical evaluations and repeated drug testing can be a heavy burden for those working through a consent order. Ashley Walden, an occupational health nurse in Moultrie, said the annual costs for exams, drug testing, and program fees add up to more than $4,000 a year for her. Ashley Walden is an an occupational health nurse in Moultrie, Georgia. The proposed alternative to discipline program would make it easier and less punitive for nurses to get help with addiction. Forty-four states have such systems in place, according to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. The programs involve support and supervision, and they are typically confidential, unlike Georgia’s open process. “The alternative to the discipline program would enable the nurse to be monitored, to continue to practice, to ensure the public safety, because they are under this specific monitoring contract, but it doesn’t show up as a disciplinary action against the nurse’s license,” explained Jim Cleghorn, deputy chief policy officer at the council and a former executive director of Georgia’s nursing board. “If they violated any provision of that contract, then it can roll over into the more traditional discipline model,” Cleghorn said. State nursing board, legislators support alternative to discipline The Georgia Board of Nursing supports adopting an alternative to discipline program, said Natara Taylor, the board’s executive director. “An ATD Program helps prevent unsafe practice by encouraging early treatment and monitoring, allowing nurses to recover while protecting the public,” Taylor said. She said the board and nursing organizations have been working “for years” to try to get the legislation and funding to establish such a program. The nursing board took a total of 238 disciplinary actions in 2024, but it isn’t clear how many of those were related to alcohol or substance use. The Georgia Nursing Association, the state’s largest professional nursing association, sees 200 to 250 nurses in its Peer Assistance Program for addiction at any one time, the program’s Executive Director Felicia Chatman told Healthbeat. A bill to establish an alternative to discipline program got unanimous approval in the state House last year. But it stalled out in the Senate and didn’t get a floor vote before the session ended. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Ron Stephens, a Savannah Republican who is also a pharmacist, said the legislature just ran out of time. Because this is the second of the state’s two-year legislative session, the bill will start in the Senate, where Stephens expects it will be considered in mid-February. If the Senate approves the bill, it would then head to Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk for his signature. “I don’t want it to fall by the wayside,” Stephens told Healthbeat on Wednesday. Stephens said doctors and pharmacists have similar programs that have worked well. He’s not sure why nurses don’t, but he’d like to “close the loop” for them. The bill would also establish a similar program for professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, and licensed social workers, all of whom are governed by a separate board. “It’s an effort to get somebody that has a problem to come forward, rather than continually hide the problem … so that a patient might get hurt,” Stephens said. The goal is “to get these people back into the workforce and being fruitful contributors.” Georgia is projected to fall short of its registered nurse need by 25,110 RNs by 2038, according to a December analysis from the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis, leaving the state with 1 in 5 projected positions unfilled. Recovery and nursing advocates speak at the state Capitol about a proposal to reform the state's discipline process for nurses who are fighting addiction. Stephens said the alternative to discipline program isn’t expected to raise costs for the Board of Nursing because participants will pay for their own drug testing and other services. The board could also outsource the management of the program to another entity under the bill. Nurses want ‘a safer environment’ for conversations about addiction States began adopting alternatives to discipline in the early 1980s, starting in Florida, said Timothy Arehart, senior policy adviser at the NCSBN. “It’s kind of a shift in culture for the U.S. overall, in which you went to more of a compassionate, non-punitive idea,” Arehart said. “It’s due to advances in the perceptions of substance use disorder and alcohol use disorder as a disease, as opposed to more of a moral failing.” Robert Taylor is a former methamphetamine addict who got sober more than two years before enrolling in nursing school. Though he passed his nurse licensing exam in January 2025, Taylor hasn’t been able to work as a nurse because of a past arrest for drug possession. The state nursing board required him to attend an intensive outpatient treatment program and complete other requirements before he could start practicing under a three-year consent order. Taylor said his experience at Georgia Pines, a community service board that provides mental health services and treatment for addiction, inspired him to become a nurse. He’s been employed there as a medical technician while waiting for his license to be sorted out and will finally start work there as an RN in early February. “I knew there would be some type of barrier, but I had no clue it would be so extensive,” Taylor said. Like Robinson, he wants to see the system treat nurses in recovery with more leniency. “Be just a little more lenient on your people like me that have actually shown that they’ve made a change in their lives,” Taylor said. Cori Fletcher, a licensed practical nurse who works at a recovery center, said she’s grateful for the consequences imposed by the nursing board because they helped her become the nurse she is today. Still, the punitive system has limits, she said. “The consent order was a no-go, and they didn’t want to hire me because of that,” she said of trying to find work during the disciplinary process. Now she is going back to school to become a registered nurse. “What I would like to see different is a safer environment for these conversations to be had, a safer environment for nurses to feel like they can discuss these things without losing their job,” Fletcher said. Rebecca Grapevine is a reporter covering public health in Atlanta for Healthbeat. Contact Rebecca at rgrapevine@healthbeat.org.
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Georgia nurses who have struggled with – and even overcome – addiction want to see the state adopt a less punitive approach to discipline that would remove some of the obstacles to treatment and employment. A bill before the state legislature that has broad bipartisan support as well as support from the state nursing board would change how Georgia handles such cases. The bill’s supporters say it’s an important tool to keep nurses in the workforce amid a nursing shortage, and an acknowledgement that addiction is a disease, not “a moral failing.” Healthbeat spoke to five nurses who have experienced addiction and to representatives of recovery organizations. They described how Georgia’s disciplinary system deterred them from seeking early treatment for fear of losing their licenses and their jobs. That’s because to get or renew a license, nurses must report treatment for alcohol or substance abuse within the past five years on the application. The acknowledgement triggers a lengthy, public, and costly disciplinary process. Courtney Robinson, who works at Northeast Georgia Health System, fought an alcohol addiction for years. She wanted to get treatment but worried that doing so would result in losing her license. When she finally got sober, she answered the question honestly during her license renewal, acknowledging a past addiction and stint in rehab. That started a process of establishing a consent order with the state nursing board. Consent orders are posted in a spreadsheet and in a searchable database on the Board of Nursing’s website, allowing anyone to look up disciplinary actions for a particular nurse. Robinson’s order requires that she participate in weekly support groups as well as regular and random drug screening for five years. It also requires quarterly reports from employers to the nursing board and restricts Robinson from working in some roles, including assignments through a nursing agency and in-home nursing. “As far as jobs, it is very difficult, unless you have some connections or know somebody, to find a decent nursing job with a consent order,” Robinson said. Nurses said the costs of medical evaluations and repeated drug testing can be a heavy burden for those working through a consent order. Ashley Walden, an occupational health nurse in Moultrie, said the annual costs for exams, drug testing, and program fees add up to more than $4,000 a year for her. Ashley Walden is an an occupational health nurse in Moultrie, Georgia. The proposed alternative to discipline program would make it easier and less punitive for nurses to get help with addiction. Forty-four states have such systems in place, according to the National Council of State Boards of Nursing. The programs involve support and supervision, and they are typically confidential, unlike Georgia’s open process. “The alternative to the discipline program would enable the nurse to be monitored, to continue to practice, to ensure the public safety, because they are under this specific monitoring contract, but it doesn’t show up as a disciplinary action against the nurse’s license,” explained Jim Cleghorn, deputy chief policy officer at the council and a former executive director of Georgia’s nursing board. “If they violated any provision of that contract, then it can roll over into the more traditional discipline model,” Cleghorn said. State nursing board, legislators support alternative to discipline The Georgia Board of Nursing supports adopting an alternative to discipline program, said Natara Taylor, the board’s executive director. “An ATD Program helps prevent unsafe practice by encouraging early treatment and monitoring, allowing nurses to recover while protecting the public,” Taylor said. She said the board and nursing organizations have been working “for years” to try to get the legislation and funding to establish such a program. The nursing board took a total of 238 disciplinary actions in 2024, but it isn’t clear how many of those were related to alcohol or substance use. The Georgia Nursing Association, the state’s largest professional nursing association, sees 200 to 250 nurses in its Peer Assistance Program for addiction at any one time, the program’s Executive Director Felicia Chatman told Healthbeat. A bill to establish an alternative to discipline program got unanimous approval in the state House last year. But it stalled out in the Senate and didn’t get a floor vote before the session ended. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Ron Stephens, a Savannah Republican who is also a pharmacist, said the legislature just ran out of time. Because this is the second of the state’s two-year legislative session, the bill will start in the Senate, where Stephens expects it will be considered in mid-February. If the Senate approves the bill, it would then head to Gov. Brian Kemp’s desk for his signature. “I don’t want it to fall by the wayside,” Stephens told Healthbeat on Wednesday. Stephens said doctors and pharmacists have similar programs that have worked well. He’s not sure why nurses don’t, but he’d like to “close the loop” for them. The bill would also establish a similar program for professional counselors, marriage and family therapists, and licensed social workers, all of whom are governed by a separate board. “It’s an effort to get somebody that has a problem to come forward, rather than continually hide the problem … so that a patient might get hurt,” Stephens said. The goal is “to get these people back into the workforce and being fruitful contributors.” Georgia is projected to fall short of its registered nurse need by 25,110 RNs by 2038, according to a December analysis from the National Center for Health Workforce Analysis, leaving the state with 1 in 5 projected positions unfilled. Recovery and nursing advocates speak at the state Capitol about a proposal to reform the state's discipline process for nurses who are fighting addiction. Stephens said the alternative to discipline program isn’t expected to raise costs for the Board of Nursing because participants will pay for their own drug testing and other services. The board could also outsource the management of the program to another entity under the bill. Nurses want ‘a safer environment’ for conversations about addiction States began adopting alternatives to discipline in the early 1980s, starting in Florida, said Timothy Arehart, senior policy adviser at the NCSBN. “It’s kind of a shift in culture for the U.S. overall, in which you went to more of a compassionate, non-punitive idea,” Arehart said. “It’s due to advances in the perceptions of substance use disorder and alcohol use disorder as a disease, as opposed to more of a moral failing.” Robert Taylor is a former methamphetamine addict who got sober more than two years before enrolling in nursing school. Though he passed his nurse licensing exam in January 2025, Taylor hasn’t been able to work as a nurse because of a past arrest for drug possession. The state nursing board required him to attend an intensive outpatient treatment program and complete other requirements before he could start practicing under a three-year consent order. Taylor said his experience at Georgia Pines, a community service board that provides mental health services and treatment for addiction, inspired him to become a nurse. He’s been employed there as a medical technician while waiting for his license to be sorted out and will finally start work there as an RN in early February. “I knew there would be some type of barrier, but I had no clue it would be so extensive,” Taylor said. Like Robinson, he wants to see the system treat nurses in recovery with more leniency. “Be just a little more lenient on your people like me that have actually shown that they’ve made a change in their lives,” Taylor said. Cori Fletcher, a licensed practical nurse who works at a recovery center, said she’s grateful for the consequences imposed by the nursing board because they helped her become the nurse she is today. Still, the punitive system has limits, she said. “The consent order was a no-go, and they didn’t want to hire me because of that,” she said of trying to find work during the disciplinary process. Now she is going back to school to become a registered nurse. “What I would like to see different is a safer environment for these conversations to be had, a safer environment for nurses to feel like they can discuss these things without losing their job,” Fletcher said. Rebecca Grapevine is a reporter covering public health in Atlanta for Healthbeat. Contact Rebecca at rgrapevine@healthbeat.org.
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Preşedintele ucrainean Volodimir Zelenski anunţă, de la Davos că a ajuns la un acord cu omologul american Donald Trump în ceea ce priveşte garanţiile de securitate ce vor exista odată ce va fi încheiat războiul din Ucraina. Garanţiile de securitate ar trebui să descurajeze Rusia să mai atace Ucraina. În schimb, nu a fost reglată chestiunea teritoriilor din estul Ucrainei, revendicate de Moscova, a mai explicat liderul ucrainean.
Preşedintele ucrainean Volodimir Zelenski anunţă, de la Davos că a ajuns la un acord cu omologul american Donald Trump în ceea ce priveşte garanţiile de securitate ce vor exista odată ce va fi încheiat războiul din Ucraina. Garanţiile de securitate ar trebui să descurajeze Rusia să mai atace Ucraina. În schimb, nu a fost reglată chestiunea teritoriilor din estul Ucrainei, revendicate de Moscova, a mai explicat liderul ucrainean.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials placed an asylum seeker who is eight months pregnant on a deportation flight Wednesday afternoon, even though she was in medical distress, her attorneys told States Newsroom. ICE officials and the Department of Homeland Security responded to States Newsroom’s requests for comment, but did not answer questions […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials placed an asylum seeker who is eight months pregnant on a deportation flight Wednesday afternoon, even though she was in medical distress, her attorneys told States Newsroom. ICE officials and the Department of Homeland Security responded to States Newsroom’s requests for comment, but did not answer questions […]
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Between 1970 and 2020, the country experienced at least 40 major climate shocks, with drought affecting around 400,000 people each year and reducing crop revenues by US$9.5 million annually, according to the World Bank.
Between 1970 and 2020, the country experienced at least 40 major climate shocks, with drought affecting around 400,000 people each year and reducing crop revenues by US$9.5 million annually, according to the World Bank.
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A package of bills allowing farmers to sell raw milk directly to customers is one step closer to a vote on the Michigan House floor, after members of the House Government Operations Committee referred the packages to the Committee on Rules. Last week, state Rep. Matt Maddock (R-Milford) welcomed small farmers from across the state […]
A package of bills allowing farmers to sell raw milk directly to customers is one step closer to a vote on the Michigan House floor, after members of the House Government Operations Committee referred the packages to the Committee on Rules. Last week, state Rep. Matt Maddock (R-Milford) welcomed small farmers from across the state […]
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Civil prosecutions of illegal pollution plummeted to historically low levels during the first year of President Trump’s second administration, according to figures released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), reflecting a sharp decline in Department of Justice (DOJ) action on cases referred by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The data compiled by PEER shows that DOJ settled just 15 of the cases referred by EPA for civil prosecution in the year since President Trump’s second inauguration. That is far below the 71 concluded during the first full year of the Biden Administration or the 75 concluded during the first full year of President Trump’s first term. The data also reveals: DOJ virtually stopped enforcing the Clean Air Act, lodging just one consent decree in a relatively small case since Trump’s inauguration last year, versus 26 in the first year of Trump’s first term, and 22 after Biden’s first year. Superfund cleanup settlements have also hit rock bottom, with only seven consent decrees lodged in the past year, about a quarter of the totals in the Trump and Biden inaugural years––2017 & 2021, respectively. DOJ landed four Clean Water Act consent decrees in the first year, a record low under any Administration. This collapse in enforcement comes as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin moves forward with plans to stop calculating the public health benefits of rules aimed at reducing air pollution and to make it harder for EPA to enforce environmental laws under a new compliance first policy. Reduced civil enforcement means fewer penalties, fewer cleanups, and fewer deterrents preventing illegal pollution. “Under Lee Zeldin, anti-pollution enforcement is dying a quick death,” remarked PEER Executive Director Tim Whitehouse, formerly an enforcement attorney at EPA. “Administrator Zeldin is removing all incentives for big polluters to follow the law and turning a blind eye to those who suffer from the impacts of pollution.” “Enforcing environmental laws ensures that polluters are held accountable and prevented from dumping their pollution on others for profit,” said Joanna Citron Day, PEER General Counsel and a former Senior Counsel at DOJ’s Environmental Enforcement Section. “For the sake of our health and the environment, Congress and the American people need to push back against Lee Zeldin’s dismantling of EPA‘s environmental enforcement program.” ### Read the PEER Report EPA to Stop Considering Lives Saved when Setting Rules on Pollution
Civil prosecutions of illegal pollution plummeted to historically low levels during the first year of President Trump’s second administration, according to figures released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), reflecting a sharp decline in Department of Justice (DOJ) action on cases referred by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The data compiled by PEER shows that DOJ settled just 15 of the cases referred by EPA for civil prosecution in the year since President Trump’s second inauguration. That is far below the 71 concluded during the first full year of the Biden Administration or the 75 concluded during the first full year of President Trump’s first term. The data also reveals: DOJ virtually stopped enforcing the Clean Air Act, lodging just one consent decree in a relatively small case since Trump’s inauguration last year, versus 26 in the first year of Trump’s first term, and 22 after Biden’s first year. Superfund cleanup settlements have also hit rock bottom, with only seven consent decrees lodged in the past year, about a quarter of the totals in the Trump and Biden inaugural years––2017 & 2021, respectively. DOJ landed four Clean Water Act consent decrees in the first year, a record low under any Administration. This collapse in enforcement comes as EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin moves forward with plans to stop calculating the public health benefits of rules aimed at reducing air pollution and to make it harder for EPA to enforce environmental laws under a new compliance first policy. Reduced civil enforcement means fewer penalties, fewer cleanups, and fewer deterrents preventing illegal pollution. “Under Lee Zeldin, anti-pollution enforcement is dying a quick death,” remarked PEER Executive Director Tim Whitehouse, formerly an enforcement attorney at EPA. “Administrator Zeldin is removing all incentives for big polluters to follow the law and turning a blind eye to those who suffer from the impacts of pollution.” “Enforcing environmental laws ensures that polluters are held accountable and prevented from dumping their pollution on others for profit,” said Joanna Citron Day, PEER General Counsel and a former Senior Counsel at DOJ’s Environmental Enforcement Section. “For the sake of our health and the environment, Congress and the American people need to push back against Lee Zeldin’s dismantling of EPA‘s environmental enforcement program.” ### Read the PEER Report EPA to Stop Considering Lives Saved when Setting Rules on Pollution
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California’s leaders need to make key decisions in 2026 to protect and support our state parks.
California’s leaders need to make key decisions in 2026 to protect and support our state parks.
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Las nuevas reglas amplían el rango de edad, eliminan exenciones y establecen quiénes deben cumplir 80 horas mensuales de trabajo o actividades aprobadas para mantener el beneficio en Carolina del Norte. La entrada Cuáles son y a quiénes afecta los nuevos requisitos para SNAP se publicó primero en Enlace Latino NC. Cuáles son y a quiénes afecta los nuevos requisitos para SNAP was first posted on enero 22, 2026 at 1:00 pm. ©2024 "Enlace Latino NC". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at paola@enlacelatinonc.org
Las nuevas reglas amplían el rango de edad, eliminan exenciones y establecen quiénes deben cumplir 80 horas mensuales de trabajo o actividades aprobadas para mantener el beneficio en Carolina del Norte. La entrada Cuáles son y a quiénes afecta los nuevos requisitos para SNAP se publicó primero en Enlace Latino NC. Cuáles son y a quiénes afecta los nuevos requisitos para SNAP was first posted on enero 22, 2026 at 1:00 pm. ©2024 "Enlace Latino NC". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at paola@enlacelatinonc.org
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Іранці, які на початку січня вийшли на протести проти правлячого режиму, зіткнулися із жорстокістю силових структур. Є багато поранених і вбитих
Іранці, які на початку січня вийшли на протести проти правлячого режиму, зіткнулися із жорстокістю силових структур. Є багато поранених і вбитих
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(The Center Square) – Illinois State Rep. Dan Ugaste, R-Saint Charles, worries Chicago’s newfound plan to divide annual advance supplemental payments for its underfunded pensions into at least two installments could lead to just more mismanagement. With taxpayers already on the hook for almost $260 million to the city’s four retirement systems as part of the 2026 budget, Mayor Brandon Johnson recently announced his administration would be making a partial payment in January while pushing a second down the line in hopes of loosening cash flow. Ugaste argues nothing about the new plan gets at the root of what is causing so much stress for taxpayers. “This is no way to run a government or if you were running a business,” Ugaste told TCS. “You don't do things this way. You set aside the money you need for your obligations, and then you determine what’s left over for discretionary spending. The city of Chicago is doing just the opposite. They've decided the programs they want to spend on, then they're trying to figure out ‘how do we find enough money to pay our obligations.’” As it is, the city’s annually required pension contribution tops $2 billion, accounting for about 38% of overall revenue, while the state has long been home to some of the highest unfunded pension debt in the country. “You have to look at it and say are they even going to have the money in the future to pay the other part they’re talking about paying down the line,” Ugaste said. “That’s got to be your biggest concern, especially given the history of pension payments, not just in Chicago but in the state. You did not set aside enough money to pay something that your own Supreme Court has told you you're going to have to pay and cannot avoid it.” In the end, Ugaste adds every taxpayer foots the bill for what he sees as ongoing mismanagement. “It makes it more difficult to get people to work for your unit of government because it looks great to promise I'm going to give you a pension, but if you don't fund your pension so that you can afford it, people may not want to come work there,” he said. “Two, you’re going to run into problems with making the payment and funding your pensions and that will ultimately affect how much people have to pay in taxes and at the end of the day because of mismanagement you're chasing people away, chasing businesses away.” City officials are on the record with a goal of bringing pensions to 90% funded over the next three decades.
(The Center Square) – Illinois State Rep. Dan Ugaste, R-Saint Charles, worries Chicago’s newfound plan to divide annual advance supplemental payments for its underfunded pensions into at least two installments could lead to just more mismanagement. With taxpayers already on the hook for almost $260 million to the city’s four retirement systems as part of the 2026 budget, Mayor Brandon Johnson recently announced his administration would be making a partial payment in January while pushing a second down the line in hopes of loosening cash flow. Ugaste argues nothing about the new plan gets at the root of what is causing so much stress for taxpayers. “This is no way to run a government or if you were running a business,” Ugaste told TCS. “You don't do things this way. You set aside the money you need for your obligations, and then you determine what’s left over for discretionary spending. The city of Chicago is doing just the opposite. They've decided the programs they want to spend on, then they're trying to figure out ‘how do we find enough money to pay our obligations.’” As it is, the city’s annually required pension contribution tops $2 billion, accounting for about 38% of overall revenue, while the state has long been home to some of the highest unfunded pension debt in the country. “You have to look at it and say are they even going to have the money in the future to pay the other part they’re talking about paying down the line,” Ugaste said. “That’s got to be your biggest concern, especially given the history of pension payments, not just in Chicago but in the state. You did not set aside enough money to pay something that your own Supreme Court has told you you're going to have to pay and cannot avoid it.” In the end, Ugaste adds every taxpayer foots the bill for what he sees as ongoing mismanagement. “It makes it more difficult to get people to work for your unit of government because it looks great to promise I'm going to give you a pension, but if you don't fund your pension so that you can afford it, people may not want to come work there,” he said. “Two, you’re going to run into problems with making the payment and funding your pensions and that will ultimately affect how much people have to pay in taxes and at the end of the day because of mismanagement you're chasing people away, chasing businesses away.” City officials are on the record with a goal of bringing pensions to 90% funded over the next three decades.
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State leaders who want to curb the increasingly violent arrest tactics of immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere are struggling to push back. They’ve promised civil rights legislation that could offer alleged victims another route to courts, ordered up official tribunals to gather video and other records, or asked cities to refuse requests to […]
State leaders who want to curb the increasingly violent arrest tactics of immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis and elsewhere are struggling to push back. They’ve promised civil rights legislation that could offer alleged victims another route to courts, ordered up official tribunals to gather video and other records, or asked cities to refuse requests to […]
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கடந்த 40 ஆண்டுகளாக வெளிவந்த புதிய ஜனநாயகம் இதழ்களும் கட்டுரைகளும் வினவு வலைத்தளத்தில் பதிவு செய்யப்படும் என்கிற மகிழ்ச்சியான செய்தியை வாசகர்களுக்குத் தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறோம்.
கடந்த 40 ஆண்டுகளாக வெளிவந்த புதிய ஜனநாயகம் இதழ்களும் கட்டுரைகளும் வினவு வலைத்தளத்தில் பதிவு செய்யப்படும் என்கிற மகிழ்ச்சியான செய்தியை வாசகர்களுக்குத் தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறோம்.
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The man is in the country on a work visa after receiving a master’s degree at UMaine, his colleagues said.
The man is in the country on a work visa after receiving a master’s degree at UMaine, his colleagues said.
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«Діалог, можливо, непростий, але сьогодні він був позитивним – цього достатньо»
«Діалог, можливо, непростий, але сьогодні він був позитивним – цього достатньо»
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One of the most promising soccer players in Jamaica is Haitian. The post Haitian football wonder signed to Montego called “brightest” in Jamaica league appeared first on The Haitian Times.
One of the most promising soccer players in Jamaica is Haitian. The post Haitian football wonder signed to Montego called “brightest” in Jamaica league appeared first on The Haitian Times.
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Tiempo de lectura: 5 minutosPor Dante Liano El vasto y profundo territorio de la India ha producido una doctrina también vasta y profunda: el budismo. En una época remota, Siddharta Gotama nació en el ambiente de una familia acomodada, si no aristocrática. Comienza, con este dato, una serie de ambigüedades o de incertezas que enriquecen el misterio y el ... Read more
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Tiempo de lectura: 5 minutosPor Dante Liano El vasto y profundo territorio de la India ha producido una doctrina también vasta y profunda: el budismo. En una época remota, Siddharta Gotama nació en el ambiente de una familia acomodada, si no aristocrática. Comienza, con este dato, una serie de ambigüedades o de incertezas que enriquecen el misterio y el ... Read more
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Лидерите на земјите-членки на Европската Унија (ЕУ) се собираат во Брисел вечерва на 22 јануари на вонреден самит, свикан откако американскиот претседател Доналд Трамп се закани дека ќе воведе царини за одредени европски земји. Самитот беше потврден и откако американскиот претседател се откажа на 21 јануари од воведување царини, откако во Давос беше постигнат рамковен договор за Гренланд на состанокот со генералниот секретар на НАТО, Марк Руте. Европската Унија првично планираше да...
Лидерите на земјите-членки на Европската Унија (ЕУ) се собираат во Брисел вечерва на 22 јануари на вонреден самит, свикан откако американскиот претседател Доналд Трамп се закани дека ќе воведе царини за одредени европски земји. Самитот беше потврден и откако американскиот претседател се откажа на 21 јануари од воведување царини, откако во Давос беше постигнат рамковен договор за Гренланд на состанокот со генералниот секретар на НАТО, Марк Руте. Европската Унија првично планираше да...
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Chatbots are already a burgeoning source of news. Seven percent of respondents in the U.S. use chatbots for news every week, according to a report last summer from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). In India, that number jumps to nearly 20 percent. As AI chatbot usage only continues to grow, there’s...
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Chatbots are already a burgeoning source of news. Seven percent of respondents in the U.S. use chatbots for news every week, according to a report last summer from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). In India, that number jumps to nearly 20 percent. As AI chatbot usage only continues to grow, there’s...
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