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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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When minorities are the majority, can they still claim minority hardship? IS CPS really going out of their way to pamper 10% of their student body at the expense of all other students?
Yes and Yes.
I rather think the whole population of CPS students is being shortchanged not just POC students.
Nixit, it’s not “minority” anymore it’s “Disadvantaged Peoples”, did you not get the memo?
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Equality mean equality of outcomes. The progressive ideologue is attempting to completely reorder our educational system to cater to the lowest performing students. It’s pure insanity because the smart kids get denied a real education because equity means he can only learn as much as the dumbest kid. Now one has ever explained to me why that’s equitable.
Why are aspirations expressed in words that are so open-ended? One thought is that this has been the way that those who are “ambitious” can gain the most adherents, using platforms that a broad segment of society can support. This avoids getting backed into a corner — the meanings can be filled in later once power has been secured. “Democracy” now apparently means [to the Left] the maximum number of people being able to vote. Thus, someone should not be burdened with establishing a right to vote via presenting evidence of citizenship or residence. Thus, does mob rule become the… Read more »
Man, oh man, this is more boring reading than even “The Communist Manifesto”…