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Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss added that his city showed how reparations could be a "tangible" reality. "Our job here is just to move forward and to continue being that example, to continue illustrating that a small municipality can make real tangible progress," he said in the report.
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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Yep, only in Evanston could folks who were never slaves get money from other folks who were never slave owners.
Does the Big Guy get 10% of this shakedown too?
Evanston Defends Its Reparations Race Hustle — Even Though Supreme Court Ruling On Race Based Benefits Makes That Scheme Unlawful