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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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Why must the black student conform his or her behavior to this lifestyle and value system? The rules described above are the result of white supremacy. This is not the solution, it is the problem. We should instead completely reorder all of society, at every level, to ensure that unemployed high school dropouts with multiple children out of wedlock have all of the same opportunities – maybe even more opportunities – than those white supremacists who “…[g]et at least a high school diploma, get a full-time job and don’t have a baby before you have a committed partner…” And let… Read more »
They won’t ask, they will command cisgender white employed people to pay for it.
Hmm, does the plan include a father present in the home and parochial education?
Parochial education? That’s only for the children of CTU members.
Wait….let me guess, the solution is more $/”reperations” for Black kids on top of the crazy $29gs per kid currently being spent?? w ZERO accountability to taxpayers as usual
With majority of additional $bucks$ being spent ending up in the pockets of are majority white/ +$100gs/ CTU heros as usual.
Am I missing something? Shouldn’t we be worried about all experiences, not just black students?
That’s not part of the Orwellian new deal that used to be called segregation.