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“You gotta get this (expletive) up and get it out of here,” a Salvation Army worker could be heard telling a Mural Movement volunteer distributing clothing in the video. A Mural Movement spokesperson said other people have had difficulties submitting donations through the city.
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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Virtue signaling over turf! Looks like they drive up and throw the donations out the car window!