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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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I’m not predisposed to believe that anything Illinois is a “leader” in is a good idea.
I’ll do Stanford et al the courtesy of agreeing with their noble goal.
Thing is, in Illinois, the “boots on the ground” who’ll actually control how all this “media literacy” is explained will be members of the woke-n-broke public employee teacher’s unions.
You know, the folks who can’t teach over 40% of K-12 kids to read, write and add at grade level, no matter how much money we give them or how low we set the standards.
I cannot wait to see the course materials on this. Readers, if your kids get any, please share.
I’m sure they’ll teach Washington Post, NYT = The Truth(tm)
But Fox News, Epoch Times, everything = Lies and disinformation, and our legislators need to pass laws to ban this Russian Disinformation.
“Most high schoolers failed to consider the funding of online sources in the 2019 Stanford survey: 96% did not think to question a website about climate change that had links to the fossil fuel industry.”
And 100% of democrats do not think to question information about climate change that comes from politicians.
Lord Jesus help these children and young adults. I hope there is a mass exodus out of these Indoctrination camps.
Under New Democrat Law, Illinois High School Students Will Be Force Fed Left Wing Media Lies