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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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Maybe the board should consider removing everyone that is employed there and parents should home school. LOL?
And the CPD will be glad of it
Being a school cop may have some benefits like a regular schedule but working for the CPS indirectly and having to deal with any of them would be insanity. Let the administrators handle some of the fighting, drugs, problems, Haha, that ain’t gonna happen.