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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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This ‘professor’ is a crazy person. Her resume is linked below. She is crazy. We pay her with our taxpayer dollars. Students pay tens of thousands of dollars to be taught by crazy people like this. Her most recent publication (in 2019) was this: “The Erotic as Resistance: Queer Resistance at a Militarized Charter School.” The State of IL pays this woman $93,082 a year to produce drivel like this. This is scandalous. NEIU has its major problems, often discussed here on WP, and this is another example of how completely insane the school has become. She exemplifies everything that is… Read more »
We should take up a collection to send Brooke over to put things straight. Just make sure it’s a one way ticket.
Killing of innocent people for any reason is not justified.