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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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Sexual harrassment is despicable. But this is yet another giant burden on employers, even gig empolyers,,although im sure it will be 90% ill gov workers filing suit’s on the tax payers dime with nobody getting fired..and most importantly, what a great state to be a lawyer!!!
I’ve been working for decades, all of my adult life, and as a teenager too – and the only incident of sexual harassment I’ve ever witnessed in all those years was committed union officials at an offsite party during work hours. They were pigs! Totally awful! They were drinking, groping women, making rude comments! I’ve never seen any sexual harassment in my corporate world. I’m not willfully blind to it either – it’s just not as big a problem in ‘the real world’ as it is in the Democrat dominated #metoo fields like media, movies, journalism. There’s no sexual harassment… Read more »