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As long as Dr. Mahmood Ghassemi’s UIC pay was capped at 70 percent of his former full-time salary of about $113,000, Ghassemi’s roughly $7,100-a-month pension wasn’t in jeopardy, as he understood it. That wasn’t an issue — until COVID turned life upside-down.
With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
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I had to do a double take on the $7100.00 a month pension. Out of order.
Sorry, but pensions are for retirees. I have 14 years in IMRF and if I was asked to come back to an Illinois city full time for an emergency I would notify IMRF, they would suspend my pension, I’d take my new pay and then go back on retirement when I was done (with a little more service credit).