The collapsing socialist city-state of Chicago is plummeting into bankruptcy, hiking taxes, and torturing its citizens at record pace.
Now the public teachers of the City intend to strike! They have a median salary of $71,017 and contribute—on the high end—only 2 percent of their salaries toward their very lavish pensions.
Their average salary (as INDIVIDUALS) is 51 percent higher than Chicago’s median HOUSEHOLD income, which is estimated at $46,877. See here.