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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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The pronoun I use now is Comrade. I feel that’s the only one any of us need now.
DEI = Didn’t Earn It
All this DEI investment and prioritization in public schools, and yet student academic performances and parent satisfaction remain at all-time lows. DEI policies have ZERO demonstrated positive impact upon actual educational learning of students themselves. “Empowering” POC students via DEI-related instruction has proven to have no impact on POC students’ academic achievement, nor have implemented DEI policies caused higher standardized test-achievement scores for POC students – the achievement gaps remain huge. New book on educational policies in American suburban public schools, “Disillusioned” by Benjamin Herold, unintentionally demonstrates evidence-based failure of DEI and Affirmative Action policies in our public schools. Identifying… Read more »
Imagine going to a job interview and being asked “Name at least two ways you’ve supported the America First and MAGA movement since President Trump was elected in 2016.”
The DIE nonsense is designed to punish conservatives and exclude them from libtard spaces.