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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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Oh, oh, oh, can I comment? Wasn’t there an article in the Trib a while back, maybe a year ago, that claimed that the Metra on the south side was not a viable option because of ‘equity’? Metra was too expensive for POC in the area, the limited schedule doesn’t address varying work hours of community residents, and the metra platforms were not updated.