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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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In order to read this article, I had to subscribe to the rag known as Crain’s. The same Crain’s that is more often than not just another fluffer and comms shop for IL. and Chicago Dems. Oh well.
We don’t want nobody that nobody sent. Speaking of no expertise, how’d BJ get elected? Same question with Lightintheloafers…..
But wait, I thought getting jobs by who you know was the Illinois way?