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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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Does this teacher fear for her life because of covid or union thug violence?
fire all of them nothing but COMMUNISTS anyway
Overpaid, cowardly, crybaby fools. “teachers” are what we get from public employee unionization. Putting a kid in a public school today is child abuse.
No one can be a science teacher and a CTU member. Anyone who supports the CTU flat-Earthers must be barred from teaching science
The schools haven’t been adequately cleaned in preparation for the return to school?
They haven’t been in school in 9 months. How long do they think the virus lives on surfaces? Maybe they should check the science.
I thought all the cleaning is done by highly competent union employees. Surely they’re not questioning the work product of the cleaning people.
the Democrats love to squeal about how we are at “war” with covid. If this is a war, what’s the penalty for cowardice and desertion?