Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel is the mayor of Chicago. He represented the Chicagoland area as a U.S. congressman prior to joining the White House as the first chief of staff in President Barack Obama’s administration. Emanuel also held various posts in the Clinton Administration from 1993 to 1998, and worked as an investment banker in the private sector.
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Says Chicago’s reduction in teen smoking over the last eight years is the "largest drop in the United States of America."
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Says three research universities "came out and said (CPS is) the best public school system in the United States of a major urban system."
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"Chicago is experiencing right now the highest employment since 1950."
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"Chicago now has the highest employment in the private sector in the history of the city."
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"And over the last six years, Chicago’s economy has grown faster than the economies of New York City, Washington, D.C., or the national average."
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"Every one of the financial bad management practices that I inherited, every one of them, have either been eliminated or cut significantly."
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[Chicago is the] only city in the United States, you get a B average in high school, community college is free.
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Chicago Public Schools "lead the country in high school graduation of an urban school system," "match the United States of America in kids graduating high…
Says in Chicago, "we take more guns off the streets than New York or L.A."
Says Mitt Romney asked for a waiver from federal welfare rules.