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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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Affirmative action hire with a decades long history of DIE wants companies to engage in more diversity. What’s next, cannabis stores going to suggest that cannabis is healthy?
Base hiring on accidents of birth, not merit; the new American way. Woke = broke.
Stupid, stupid Crain’s chickens.
That’s right, don’t worry about talent or character, just bend a knee to the woke left-wing extremists – that’s how you run a business. Crain’s is a total joke.
Let’s see the racial makeup of Crain’s, from the janitors up to the reporters and senior management
During recessionary times, DEI is DOA.
Crain’s Chicago Business — Chicago’s Anti-Business, Business Fake-Newspaper, Wants Race Quotas For Corporate Boards