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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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Anyone in media reporting on the two+ cases of TB found at Elmhurst College?
TB, like polio, supposedly eliminated from civilized societies.
Given large number of undocumented unvetted unvaccinated recently-arrived migrants in Chicago and Cook County, our Public Health Departments probably must track the sudden outbreaks in tropical diseases and in 3rd-world infectious contagions associated with uneducated poor migrants.
Any reports of outbreaks in CPS schools?
In order to be a Chicago alderman, my guess is that you are required to have an economics degree from the University of Chicago. You’d have to in order to be this stupid.