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.
You’re behind the times, Lori. The environmental narrative has been abandoned because that house of cards was brought down already. When humans drastically changed their routines and the numbers didn’t align like the climate screamers wanted, it all fell apart.