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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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I am sure that whatever the problems are , they are someone else’s fault and that they are also racist.
Funny article, I wouldn’t expect anything less than a messed up situation with the bank being run by a bunch of affirmative action professionals. Kinda like Chicago and Cook County.
Other Chicago banks will be pressured into stepping up and helping this joke of a financial institution by local “leaders”. They’ll do it too, so they don’t get called out as racist. It has happened before.