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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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CTU is a political machine, not a labor union. Audit CTU to expose where they’re spending their money, and to whom. Students and education aren’t benefiting from CTU. Who is?
If they want to reflect the “best” parts of the tradition, then the CTU will just have to stay home.
CTU/Potter’s “part of the national coordination team” for “Workers over Billionaires” protest….all while making a very upper-class gaurenteeted deal ON THE TAXPAYERS DIME.