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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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Demand #1: “Rebuild the African American Studies Department and allow students to major in the subject…eliminated as majors at WIU in 2016.”
LOL, OK. According to WIU enrollment statistics, there was only 1 “new freshman” enrolled in African Majors from 2011-2015 and enrollment in African American Studies peaked in 2012 at 24 total. Can a small state university support majors with a couple dozen students? Ridiculous.
What job are they going to get with a degree in African American studies? Race hustling, looting, carjacking and hatred of white people.
College has become a joke. WIU has been a joke for a long time, like NIU.