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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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I lived in the city for 51yrs and never saw a shooting. I feel deprived, who can I sue?
And who, pray tell, is perpetrating all this violence? Or is it indelicate to state?
Oh, I get it, only state what supports the progressive narrative, right?
Self reported statistics, so worthless.
Doubt 3.1% of white people had been shot. This makes me question the validity of the entire study.
w0w, I would never had known that unless CNN had informed me…!!!