Anyone can create a poll to indicate anything they want. Here outside a rustbelt city everyone who wants a job has one and lotsa people of all colors moving out "up the hill" to better housing/neighborhoods. Must be a terrible time when anyone who can be bothered to show up on time has a job and are getting suburb homes.

Unnamed sources in the N.Y. Times. Lol.

for a generation now if one had the gall to vote Rep. in a certain Il county one could expect a property tax increase. such, seemingly was never news.

As long as social security remains we are going to need new folks paying into it. As we have stopped having babies the new blood has to come from somewhere. We have always needed immigrants. "How many?" Continues to be ignored at our collective peril.

in my time abroad south korea and Taiwan were more advanced than st.louis. just sayin

Never heard of the literary effort Christianity Today until this morning.

Well...what is to be done with the unemployable? IIRC even the military has a minimum IQ that fits about 10% of the population. What does our society do? Looks like we cut them loose to sink or swim. They drift to big cities for enhanced social safety net. The sooner we figure what to do with the unemployable/redundant the better as their number is not going to decrease but rather only increase with the ever growing computer age. The can has been kicked to the end of the alley.

The poor migrate to big cities. When will small town america stop forcing the poor away? Know of any small towns that help the homeless? Most offer nothing and the poor drift to bigger towns.

The Cali GOP will be the same as the Illinois gop. Toothless and inefficent.

How come the dems never complain about gerrymandered illinois?

I used to be a foodstamp caseworker. Plenty of able bodied guys in their 20s, not students,never held a job as per their statements. $194 a month SNAP for each of them. Yes, we as a society need to help the needy. But maybe, just maybe rewarding able bodied for refusing to work is not in anyone's best interest.

Lol. China will never forget when the US armed the Dalai lama's monks. The U.N. ain't ever getting in.

Illinois has already put daunting signature requirement effectively killing off nascent political parties. The false left-right choice must be seemingly preserved at all costs.

Sarcasm is easy. Have a real solution or just wanna add nothing? Apparently some kids cannot handle school but there is no place to help them. They end up in the prisons which have become our nation's depository for the mentally ill. Getting these kids help mentally is alot cheaper than incarcerating them a decade from now. The classroom teacher has a score more young minds to grow at the same time the mentally stunted/damaged one is melting down.

Dna test the ----. Keep score. Ticket and fine the individual.