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As Harvard Corporation’s senior fellow, Penny Pritzker stands at the center of the most consequential battle between a school and the U.S. government in more than half a century.
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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She’s providing for some hope among Americans that understand that free speech is more important than your feelings
Let the Pritzker family fund Harvard if they want to allow what has been happening on campus to happen.