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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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JB wants to get to the kids early. He wants to set early childhood curriculums around woke issues. It’s all he really cares about.
Studies have repeatedly shown that kids that to go to preschool perform better in elementary school, and often, high school and in higher ed. One particular study IIRC found that nearly all of U of I’s incoming classes attended preschool in some form or another. A lot of the help comes from the early socialization of kids, introducing them to thinks like waiting in line, raising your hand to ask a question, not talking out of turn, learning letters and numbers, how to sit in a circle at circle time. A lot of these kids in so called ‘preschool deserts… Read more »
They want your children from cradle to grave.
Alternate headline:
JB Expands State Run Daycare Program