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Northwestern University's Prison Education Program is a partnership among the university, Oakton College and the Illinois Department of Corrections. Around 100 students are enrolled in the program across Stateville and the Logan Correctional Center, a women's prison.
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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Best guess they are now all qualified to perform in the Nutcracker Ballet in tutu’s. LOL
Let me guess; Blagojevich has become a prof!
The catch is all their degrees are in journalism.