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Follow on Google News | CivicLab Announces New Crowd-Funded Book: "Chicago Is Not Broke. Funding the City We Deserve"The CivicLab and the TIF Illumination Project has published a new crowd-funded book. "Chicago Is Not Broke. Funding the City We Deserve." A group of Chicago experts have written short articles outlining ways to save and generate MAJOR revenues.
By: The CivicLab The project has been made possible via a crowdfunding campaign. As of July 8, 2016 200 people chipped in $8,367 towards a goal of $10,000. The web site for this project is: www.wearenotbroke.org. The crowdfunding campaign is being hosted on Generosity (a sister site to Indiegogo.com (http://www.indiegogo.com/)) "We are seeking to broaden the conversation on civic possibilities in Chicago well in advance of the 2017 budget cycle. This project is based on the three years of research and public education done via the TIF Illumination Project as well as my past ten years work fighting privatization and doing grassroots democracy all over Chicago and Cook County," says organizer Tom Tresser. The book is designed by Alison Sustarich of Tiny Bold Design Studio -http://tinybold.com. Besides a physical print book, we will also place the material on a book-related wiki site which will have links to references and examples. We will invite people to use this wiki to ADD and DEEPEN the references and examples used in the book. We see this as a massive, ongoing popular education campaign that will bring thousands of ordinary Chicagoans into substantive public policy discussions about the future of Chicago. The book follows this outline: 1. Preface - Why this book, Tom Tresser 2. How to Think About Budgets - Ralph Martire of the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability - http://www.ctbaonline.org Section 1 - Money That Is Stolen From Us - That We Did NOT Have To Spend 3. The cost of corruption in Chicago - Prof. Dick Simpson, University of Illinois at Chicago - http://pols.uic.edu/ 4. Toxic Bank Deals - Jackson Potter, Chicago Teachers Union -http://www.netrootsnation.org/ 5. The Cost of Police Violence - Jamie Kalven, Invisible Institute. -http://invisible.institute/ Section 2 - Money That Is Hidden From Us 6. Tax Increment Financing - The Off the Books Slush Fund - Tom Tresser. Section 3- Money That We Are Not Collecting 7. A Progressive Income Tax For Illinois - Hilary Denk, Co-Chair, Issues Committee of the Board of the League of Women Voters Illinois - http://denkmediation.com/ 8. What a LaSalle Street Tax Would Do For Chicago - Ron Baiman, Assistant Professor of Economics in the Graduate Business Administration program at Benedictine University -https://www.linkedin.com/ 9. A Public Bank For Chicago - Amara Enyia, PhD, former candidate for mayor, Public Policy Consultant, Principal of ACE Municipal Partners -https://www.linkedin.com/ Conclusion, Final Box Score Number of Proposed Revenues, Call To Action - Jonathan Peck, former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Tucson Urban League has over 25 years experience working within the community development field facilitating projects, coalitions, and alliances at the neighborhood, citywide, regional, national and international levels.https:// End
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