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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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“…only a quarter of CPS students are considered proficient in reading.”
This survey and article are a crock. 25% can read, and they give CPS a ‘C’??
A “C”?!?! Only in Illinois Government is 4 in 10 performance a “C” grade? Bust CTU now. School Vouchers for all will expose the grifters of teachers union to competition.
Over 97 percent of the teachers are rated proficient or excellent. These are ratings provided by their employer. What do the parents think?
So both the schools and the parents do not believe this is caused by the teachers. The teachers are performing meeting both the expectations of their employer as well as local residents and taxpayers. You’re not busting any union TPG.
With their bottomless failure, Public Sector Unions are busting themselves. Within the next decade all of the US will be like Wisconsin and all Public Sector Unions will be made illegal.
Sure it will TPG. All signs point to America uniting with one way of thinking and Illinois, New York and California will see the light and start acting like red states. lol
I’m sure that the smug supporters of the constitutional farce of Roe v. Wade thought in their cocky hubris just like you do. And here we are. The question constitutionally returned to the states and a slow consensus of limitations at 20 to 25 weeks building nationwide. Of course, not yet here in infantcide-is-a-womans-right Illinois, but…..slowly. Same with the deeply questionable constitutionality of public sector unions.
Just what is it that they’re learning, is what’s concerning.