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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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Anytime the far left uses the word “fair,” think the opposite.
School just started and the teachers are already abandoning our most vulnerable assets, our children in order to spend an afternoon roaming around outside.
Source? The article doesn’t say teachers abandoned their classroom and were just “roaming” outside. It states the Chicago Teachers Union and members of the Chicago Public School system. That could be non-teachers (CTU employees) that work for the union and administrators for CPS. Nothing indicates your assertion.
It would be nice if the article covered this basic question as to “who” was rallying and “when” it took place. I’m guessing it was during drop off and pick up for maximum exposure but we don’t really know.
Wow PPF. What CTU member is keeping you distracted from the real truth and painful criticism with whatever skills she possesses to keep your piehole shut while they steal and grift from the taxpayers.? Or he. No judgement here on where you seek your relief. But it appears you are so easily distracted by a CTU terrorist sucking parasite. I thought better of you PPF.
Schools started. Get yourselves back in school and teach. Stop protesting and do your jobs.
Maybe they should work on school plans to improve students learning than their bank accounts
Another Marxist that doesn’t understand the wealthy pay plenty in taxes and also have businesses that keep people off of the dole.
Nobody beats Chicago Dems at dopey protests that accomplish nothing.