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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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Emanuel s-t his own bed with the handling of the Lequan McDonald fiasco and the folks in the community will never forget it or let him either.
Johnson inherited a lot of problems, true. Rather than addressing them responsibly and substantively he exacerbates them with decision making at least as bad as what got us here.
He loves to pass the buck. And not only to his teachers union friends either