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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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The only consequences should be get yourself into a classroom and teach or get fired?
Sorry guys, Elvis has left the building. Your beloved pandemic is over.
He blames Devore the lawyer? Really? They’re all going to die of COVID because of a lawyer? Come on’ Jesse, you’re better than that.
PLEASE pull your kids from this abominable system. 11.1% of American kids are now homeschooled. If they can, you can too.
Health consequences? Do they mean a possible weight reduction because teachers at actually back at work instead of stuffing their faces back at home ? Oh, the horror! A possible weight reduction and accompanying health improvement!
Time to break the union — fire all the teachers — use the money saved to pay Catholic and private schools to teach kids that can and want to learn — send the incorrigibles to work and learn a trade, break their family cycle of welfare and poverty
The down vote must be a CTU member.
They don’t fear what will happen without masks. They fear what won’t happen.