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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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Affirmative action has long been TRUE systemic racism.
Gee I wonder if Illinois colleges will ever get around to forming young men with critical thinking skills again?
So UIS is telling whites and asians to SIT AT THE BACK OF THE BUS. The hard earned merits of qualified whites and asians is less important than the color of their skin, and their individual achievements is subordinated to the advancement of less qualified people, because of the color of their skin i.e. sit at the back of the bus.
The UNC case will in particular be of significant consequence to public schools in Illinois. UNC CH’s admissions practices contributed to their massive scandal in the African studies department, where credit was given for essentially no work. While it was in part an athletic problem, UNC successfully defended against a NCAA investigation relying on a defense that it was a school wide problem, and with the entire student body eligible to receive the program’s questionable benefits. A novel way to beat the NCAA. Regardless of the court decisions to come, public schools will continue to find every way possible to… Read more »
The UNC case will likely ban or severely restrict affirmative action. Many universities will #resist and defiantly continue to openly, or secretly, apply affirmative action, and the class action lawsuits will crush them. Many colleges will not survive and others will be completely reformed as a result. Some colleges will shift focus to socioeconomic status instead of race, even though they have argued that socioeconomic status is an insufficient metric to diversify student populations. But the reality is that using socioeconomic status will mean that more middle and lower class students, of all races, will be accepted into elite colleges,… Read more »
I got “quota’d” out of schools twice in the late 70’s. It is about time for the ‘affirmative action’ travesty to end. I continued to pursue my education and thankfully achieved my goals, albeit a few years later despite the obstacles.