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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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“the state’s Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity will open a $5 million grant program for reproductive health care providers in Illinois. That money comes from the non-transportation portion of Illinois’ $45 billion infrastructure program, Rebuild Illinois. It can be spent on improvements, repairs, new construction, security upgrades and equipment, including vehicles that can be turned into mobile care units.” DCEO is the same agency that hands out economic development grants for pandemic-affected businesses, electric vehicle manufacturers, tourism promotion, apprenticeship programs, etc. So apparently abortion — killing unborn children for any reason or no reason at all — is now… Read more »
Remember when Clinton wanted abortions ‘Safe, Legal, and Rare’
The D’s now want everyone (including men) to get one
Illinois doesn’t even have $23 to throw at this latest baby killing scheme.
#JournalismIsDead
Pugsley is the prostitute for BIG ABORTION and its Illinois Infanticide Industry
Hmm, is invest the right word here? You could say that Hitler invested in post term abortions too.
Not only is Chicago the murder capital of the world, now the state will be come one come all, murders.
Hobbesville would be a more apt moniker. Where life is nasty, brutish and short.