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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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Interesting Politico articale from yesterday, states that it’s more or less same behinde the scenes Madigan lawyers that will be drawing up remaps and then move onto chicago ward remap. Some of these lawyers are same as 10 years ago. Sickening. https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2021/08/26/madigan-looms-on-the-remap-statewide-vax-mandate-rahms-parting-gifts-494145