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.
Education starts in the home.
The program sounds like way to redistribute wealth to the overpaid. Robin Hood in reverse.
Who are the dopey lib-tars that buy into the CPS/CTU under funding shtick would seem the BIG question for CTU/Brandon, CTU, ST/WBEZ, Chalkbeat, R Martire,…etc. The article states the author’s now a library teacher in Franklin Park?