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Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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This is going to happen more often. Illinois has no money for anything but the overly generous pension time bomb.
According to Lightfoot and CPD leadership it doesn’t count for city statistics because it happened on the expressway. State police problem, not Chicagos
Sure. It is as if it didn’t happen. As the unaccountable like to say, “My area is fine”