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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 SlumTimes? My parakeet refuses to allow this rag to line the bottom of his birdcsge.
As the great Margaret Thatcher once allegedly said:
“Someone is joking…”
Good grief, he comes from the disgraced New York Times, says he’s been “inculcated in the professions articles of faith.” Yeah, those articles of faith are lies and bias.
This was kinda a revealing piece in todays wsj about nyt writers guild/union. https://www.wsj.com/business/media/new-york-times-staffers-form-journalistic-independence-caucus-amid-concerns-over-unions-actions-f9be2a58?mod=mhp