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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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Apparently it’s never too early to begin a gender neutral, sexless society indoctrination program for school students that can neither read, write or do math.
Perhaps CPS is doing students a favor by not teaching them to read.
The average first grader doesn’t have the first idea about what “stereotypes” means.
These topics and their presentation are not age-appropriate.
Pity the children stuck in CPS!
Gosh, I had to wait until 6th grade.
I’m not sure I ever heard the world vulva ever in school, including college biology. Maybe concentrate on the ABC’s and basic math in the early grades. How much are the schools wasting on purchasing/developing this?
Back in the day I knew someone who had a 1968 122S Volvo. Nice car. That’s as much as I knew about Volvo’s.