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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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Hmm, I’d say crime filled hoods are correlated with fatherless homes. These faith leaders should preach on abstinence, chasity, and marriage for several generations and see if things improve.
If you click on lick article is based on regarding tipped workers you find it’s buy Project for Middle Class Renewal which is part of the U of Illinois–Labor Education Program (LEP). All of there studies are very pro organized labor. Is Project for Middle Class Renewal simply another union advocacy organization run through U of Illinois–Labor Education Program (LEP)just like ILEPI? With Bruno running the show.
https://lep.illinois.edu/
https://lep.illinois.edu/project-for-middle-class-renewal/
Babylon Bee article? Carjackings, muggings, and shoplifting caused by subminimum waitstaff hourly wages? Huh?