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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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Woke progressivism ends up in the weirdest place when taken to it’s logical conclusion. Pritzer is threatening to remove AP African-American History alltogether until it includes black queer history.
Well JB, I ACCEPT YOUR TERMS.
Let’s make demands in AP Black history courses, but not worry about the 80% of the Black students who aren’t reaching the minimum state standards for math and reading.
Spot on. The words Democrat and education shouldn’t be used in the same sentence.