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Cash-strapped CPS spent millions on pizza, subs

Chicago Public Schools spent millions of dollars to bring in food and beverages from area restaurants and catering companies, including more than $500,000 since July, and now the district says it craf... read more

Cash-Strapped Chicago School System Spent Millions on Junk Food

On Wednesday, CPS acknowledged it spent roughly ... comes as the cash-strapped district's recently installed leadership team has sought to publicize its efforts to cut expenses after approving a new b... read more

The fast-food industry’s $4.2 billion marketing blitz

$6.5 million. That means that for every $1 the industry spends haranguing Americans to eat stuff like Burger King’s 2,500-calorie Pizza Burger ... about $4 billion to spend on ingredients — roughly eq... read more

Nike Gave Jabari Parker's High School Branded Apparel And That's OK

And it has resulted in more than $1 million ... (The sub-headline gravely reads, "Guess who comes out on top.") As sleazy and Orwellian as marketing strategy can get, Simeon's choice to secure funding ... read more

City Council boosts funds to help sex trafficking survivors get back on their feet

The council’s Committee on the Justice System has allocated $1.2 million for the 2019 fiscal year to be split ... can help them break free from a trafficker or pimp — but the cash-strapped non-profits ... read more

Burn Her! She Would Act Like a Witch in a Situation That Will Never Come Up!

1) Family owners of small-town Indiana pizzeria spend zero time or energy commenting on gay issues ... Many of the enraged critics assert, inaccurately, that Memories Pizza discriminates against gay c... read more

Budget Hearing Brouhaha

Proposed budget cuts for the coming year include $68 million to classroom spending. Thousands of CPS teachers and support staff have received pink slips in recent months. City: Budget Deficit Will Get ... read more

Top CPS exec out as Claypool reshapes leadership team

CPS pays the group millions to serve as a network of so-called turnaround schools that emerged under Mayor Richard Daley as a way to shape up struggling buildings. David Vitale, the school board's las... read more

Dire scenarios for Illinois in second year without budget

The status of cash-strapped public colleges and universities may depend on how fast they spent last year's emergency funds. The schools received short-term funding when Rauner and legislators approved ... read more

Forget the cap, here's the truly frightening cost of long-term care

Although Andrew Dilnot's report suggested a cap of between £25,000 and £50,000, there have since been calls for an increase to £60,000 by former minister of care Paul Burstow and predictions that a ca... read more

How Do You Sell a Car to a Millennial?

"To look at pure dollars [Millennials] spend, and end the ... turn their backs on an 80-million-strong cohort. But despite their estimated $172 billion in spending power, Millennials have a reputation ... read more

Police Say Kidnapping Medical Marijuana Activist's 11-Year-Old Son Is for 'the Child's Well-Being'

After Banda's son "reported to school officials that his mother and other adults in his residence were avid drug users," Ralston says, the officials called CPS, which in turn contacted the police. The ... read more