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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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One of the main problems with infant mortality in African-American women is extremely low Vitamin D3 levels in people with darker skin. In general African Americans need at least 6 times more D3 than lighter skin people. There is more scientific info at NCBI(pubmed.gov) If the mother is very low in D than the infant gets next to none plus higher rates of other diseases like asthma are attributed to low D3 levels in everyone.
And the 56% obesity among african american women over the age 20 who are obese doesn’t help either vs. 38% for whites (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/black-health.htm). Obesity direct correlates with maternal mortality in the US. (J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2017 May;30(9):1060-1065. doi: 10.1080/14767058.2016.1199680. Epub 2016 Jun 29.
Does maternal obesity impact pregnancy-related deaths? Michigan experience.
Mariona FG1,2 – Obese woman are 3.7x more likely to die of a pregnancy related death).
““We found that a lot of highly educated black women in high paying careers are more likely to die as a consequence of childbirth than a white woman without even a high school diploma,” she said.” So it’s obviously not a ‘class’ issue then. What else could be it? Health and weight? No……..MUST BE RACE TO FIT THE NARRATIVE. I as much as any one want to see the gap narrowed but it does a disservice to society in general when blatantly obvious issues documented issues are ignored for the ‘black people aren’t listened to’ racism angle. Its depressing because… Read more »