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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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Wow, Pritzker actually put boundaries on a CTU running amok. Too little too late, but still notable.
Teachers want to sleep in and teach in pajamas
Holy cow! Lucky finds the stones to buck the mighty, mighty CTU? Great day in the morning!
If my daughter can go to her private school in chauffeur driven car ,then dammit so can other kids go to school.
So says the guy that issued 38 consecutive monthly emergency orders during Covid that kept kids out of school and under remote learning much longer than most other states.
…. and where they can continue to be fed a steady diet of Marxist ideology, with a side of America-hating, by their leftist teachers.
Remote, as in the parents country of origin would be good.