Mayor Lori Lightfoot hosting Chicago poverty summit. Way to distract from murder problems?

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Focus on poverty, not gun violence. . .

Linking two of the city’s chronic issues, Lightfoot said gun violence is “a symptom of poverty.”

. . .  not also a cause, helping to drive wealth producers away?

via Mayor Lori Lightfoot hosting Chicago poverty summit: ‘We’re no longer going to look the other way’ – Chicago Tribune

Published by Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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