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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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That’s Amanda Vinicky, who is horrible. Her work is shallow, error riddled and among the most partisan. WUIS is the Springfield NPR station so they, like the Springfield Register, tell their overwhelmingly union audience what they want to hear.
The reporter refers to late May as a ” time when there was no budget crisis”.
When was the last time Cullerton and Madigan passed a balanced budget?
What fine school of journalism claims her as a graduate?