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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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Anyone still living in the Chitty of Chicago still has a mental health issue.
Question, what level of mental health services is proposed for city mental health centers? Staffed by fully licensed psychologist or psychiatrist? Able to prescribe antidepressants, etc? Or just stafted by some seiu workers who took a couple classes at city colleges and got his substace abuse counselor certificate?…my guess is the latter