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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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CPS students education is not in danger from lead — it’s in danger from the race hate classroom lesson and sexualized grooming curriculum being taught by CTU leftist kooks.
Slick move by CTU to give Herself a nudge on the lead issue. I wonder if she knows it’s a play. Who will be the target of her wrath?
A union teacher is more harmful to the children and their cognitive abilities than all the lead in the world