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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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Nice to know that DePaul has completely gone off the rails. I guess they have no problem dealing with existing in a fantasy land insane world largely of their own creation.
The relentless focus on diversity at the exclusion of merit ultimately wrecks most universities. When high achieving students of all races refuse to attend college, the schools must go deeper and deeper into the well of Losers and court the multiple gendered freaks, the militant ethno-naracssists, the outright racists, and the communists, just to have warm bodies on zoom on the first day of class. But lookie here, we have diversity they shout! They ignore that there are few white male students, and that the school has far women than men and even has lots of women of color! But… Read more »
DePaul graduate may years ago- Stopped giving them any money a few years ago.
To Liberal of a university! Keep it
Agree. Strong focus on building good professional skills back in the day. Focused on educating the lower middle class. Now woke and primarily a school for rich liberals. Need to starve this woke school.
As a graduate of DePaul this should be easy. There are 3 ways to use the word To, Two, or Too. Which would be the correct usage in your posting?
Please refer to me as “whobody”. I like it!
The should have added “cousin it” to make it an even ten.
DePaul’s reputation has gone into the toilet. I laugh at DePaul grads when I see it on resumes. I tell them that they should have saved the money and gone to Northern instead, and their poor judgment is why they can’t work for me.
NIU is in the toilet also, yes cheaper but an awful school these days.
Remember that everything woke turns to shit! That would include DePaul and Northwestern!
Makes lots of sense.