What Would You Do With A Million Dollars? Whether Participatory Budgeting Is Worth The Effort

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Some wards vote on how to spend some taxpayer money. Does it help spread the wealth or is it just a feel-good exercise?

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0:00.0	Planet Money helps you understand the economy.
0:02.7	We find the people at the center of the story.
0:05.1	Garbage in New York, that was like a controlled substance.
0:08.6	We show you how money influences everything.
0:11.6	Tell me what you like by telling me how you spend your money.
0:15.5	And we dig until we get answers.
0:17.5	I had a bad feeling you're going to bring that up.
0:19.4	Planet Money finds out.
0:20.7	All you have to do is listen.
0:22.4	The Planet Money podcast from NPR.
0:26.7	Hey there, podcast listeners.
0:28.7	Curious City's been around for over three years, and we've answered a lot of your questions,
0:34.0	including one about Chicago's dating scene.
0:36.6	Are you on a date right now?
0:38.3	I'm not sure.
0:40.3	Um...
0:41.3	One listener asked the Illinois Secretary of State this awkward question.
0:46.3	Mr. Wright, uh, why are there so many portraits of you at the, uh, Chicago Land DMVs?
0:52.3	Well, that is something something that I started.
0:55.8	And you wanted to know how Illinois operated without a budget for two years.
1:00.9	We're trying to run our state this way.
1:02.6	It's really ridiculous.
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