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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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“The Senate passed House Bill 641 which would require institutions to supply students with free menstrual products in all campus bathrooms. Sen. Jil Tracy (R-Quincy) argued that similar programs have been implemented in the past but were cancelled after students took more products than needed.’
Some colleges began offering free menstrual products in men’s bathrooms too….let’s just say that they had to stop doing that because students wouldn’t stop destroying them….
Happened at my former employer along with first aide supplies, it was pilferage on a weekly basis need i not say more!