Chicago Weekly Crime Tracker – Wirepoints
May 8, 2024
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Weekly crime statistics from the Chicago Police Department: Report through 5/4/2024.
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David Greising, of the Better Government Association: "The topic is on the table because a narrow section of the Tier 2 pension promise must indeed be fixed. Tier 2 benefits are not growing as fast as Social Security checks, and this violates a safe-harbor provision in federal law. The actual problem is narrow, and the legislature is considering ways to fix it. But the little-known codicil is being used as a wedge to do much more."
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May 3, 2024
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At $1.5 million per job, the new incentive package from the state is at least 15 times the norm. For this much money, the state could have just handed out a million bucks to 827 people, instead of creating 550 jobs.
Of course the state and taxpayers have the right to not increase pensions (assuming safe harbor is met) beyond the current contract. I didn’t realize people thought otherwise. They also have the right to make those pensions better if they so choose. Glad David cleared that up.
Another empty op-ed by David Griesing. It says nothing.