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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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Anything you read on Axios is 1,000 pct fake news fraud
These types of articles are super-low information. So frustrating and disingenuous. The SAFE-T classifies many crimes as presumed releasable. Aggravated battery and so on. Defendants can be held pretrial, no bail, only if a prosecutor finds a specific identifiable threat. This is entirely different from the studies used in this article which reformed bail for other crimes. morever, the study was biased, to say the least: This research was supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation through the Safety and Justice Challenge Research Consortium (Consortium). Launched in 2019, the Consortium advances criminal justice research, grounded in the… Read more »
Articles like these are designed to mislead and deceive an overburdened public.