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“Spearheaded by research from Wirepoints, a coalition that called itself the Taxpayer Pension Alliance commended Mayor Brandon Johnson for accelerating payments to bring down Chicago’s pension debt. They worried, though, that the Pension Working Group Johnson established will recommend actions that kick the problem down the road.”
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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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Pritzker gave Gotion 125 million today it says…would that have helped?
Hmm, could 52 million aborted babies contribute to a pension funding shortfall?
The teens wondered what was kept in the red shed on the far edge of the school grounds. -Jericho Schroeder