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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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Where’s the free speech at the Chicago Crusader and Chicago Reader? If I want to politely point out an article error or ask a question, I can’t. 🔔
Sounds like what happened to Kass at the Tribune. Keep fighting Ms. Leavell!
We’ve read both Mr. Goodman’s and Ms. Leavell’s comments on the reader and in neither article did one identify the race of the other.
Refreshing.
Thank you, Ms. Leavell, for your stance on free speech and the need for balanced reporting. The left leaning media is no a friend to thinking citizens.
I’m disappointed in Mr. Higginbottom’s decision to remove you from the board and install a high ranking labor hack.
Hopefully your voice will be heard over the mob’s … we can all hope.
Kudos to the author for blowing the whistle on the cancel culture creeps at the Reader