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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 below services can be provided by lower – cost paraprofessionals (these are generally called “Library Technical Assistants”)… this is not “rocket science” exactly; quote from the article:
“In addition to providing crucial support to faculty researchers, librarians offer key assistance to first-generation students just learning to navigate the academic environment. The librarians can direct them to electronic resources, catalogs of digital information and specialized tools for research projects. They also handle acquisitions and maintain subscriptions and databases for the entire university community…”
These days the library books mostly go unused, as students can access research journals online from their dorm rooms, and rarely ever need to physically touch a book. I remember the library at my college campus had hundreds upon hundreds of shelves of old, untouched books in new condition, most of which had not been touched since they were placed on that shelf decades earlier…I imagine things have only gotten worse since then.
Good. Librarianship needs to razed to the ground, and the earth salted in its wake. At WIU, the swarmy looking “Reference Unit Coordinator” describes herself as a “she/her” and has published guides about “Banned and Challenged Books”. Guess she’ll have to find a new job as a dog-walker! Buh Bye, don’t let the door hit your butt on the way out! The Area Studies and Reference Librarian is from Puerto Rico and came to Western to “to pursue a second master’s degree in Instructional Design and Technology”. Now that your job will be terminated, maybe you can door dash me… Read more »
Now nobody will tell you Shsssh! You can talk in the library as much and loud as you want.
Wondering if the head honcho of librarians, some openly gay communist woman whose name mercifully escapes me, will get out there and fight for her comrades as much as she fought for drag queen story time? Nah.
Emily drabinski, midwit gynocrat( term originating by Penn prof Amy Wax)with major daddy issues.
Dear em has vowed to use the libraries all across the US as platforms for queer marxist theory.
And her sycophant librarians follow her every word.
And it’s to her American Library Association to which Illinois delegated book banning authority. That’s under the fraudulently labeled ban on book ban bill Illinois passed. https://wirepoints.org/illinois-delegated-control-over-its-ban-on-book-bans-to-an-organization-now-run-by-a-self-described-marxist-wirepoints/