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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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Democrats love criminals and terrorists.
Free beer, Free Food and Dancing girls will stop it.
If teenagers want jobs badly enough, they’ll find them. However, for many of them, their mentality is It’s much more fun not to work than to work. Also, many aren’t interested in jobs paying slightly more than minimum wage. As a teenager, I worked and went to school. I’d go facility-to-facility to fill out job applications. My father instilled a high level of work ethic in me. Because of my work ethic and tenacity, I obtained marketable degrees, worked professional jobs, provided for my family over the years, and built a nice retirement for my wife and me. Oh, and… Read more »
“Discipline leads to success…”
You’re a racist (sarc)
I read the article and I made a good faith effort to listen to the ideas of community activists. They are in the community, they deal with the kids everyday, they are in the trenches, maybe they have some good solutions. Sigh. Unfortunately, most of their ideas are ideological bunk with no grounding in reality. For example, she said: ~kids need jobs so they won’t come downtown. Uh, it’s late on a Saturday night, teens aren’t working late nights on Saturdays, so that’s an unlikely excuse. Teen unemployment has been high for years no, yet, no other groups of teens… Read more »
Throw them in a prison cell with some hardened criminals and they would not be bored for long!
Oh, great, WBEZ. Give them help with Uber rides home from downtown. That’ll fix it.
As someone who is in “workforce development”, there are plenty of resources for job seekers on the South and West sides. e.g. workforce nonprofits, faith – based groups, etc. My present agency provides free WIOA training and job placement for any low – income person who seeks it, it’s an excellent entrée into the world of work and adulthood. Below is a link to our current funder; you even automatically qualify if you live in any low – income neighborhoods. So there are TONS of resources IF you want to access them – but you have to have the motivation… Read more »
Why work when you can run wild in the streets on a Saturday night?
Here’s a thought. Throw their parents in jail like Michigan did to the kid who shot up Oxford!
How about instilling some values in these kids?
Or, making parents accountable?
How about some decency toward other human beings?
The moral rot is on full display in Chicago.