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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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What about restaurants and bars chuckles you said this is the number 1 source of the continued outbreaks.
His data is claiming that bars and restaurants are the number 1 source of “potential exposure” locations not the number 1 source of “outbreaks”. So contact tracers have determined that infected people have visited a restaurant more than other locations but it doesn’t mean they were actually infected at said location. Correlation does not equal causation. If the contact tracers asked infected individuals if they used a public restroom would that be the number 1 source of “potential exposure”? When contact tracers are actually able to trace it back to a location where an actual “outbreak” occurred then restaurants are… Read more »
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