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"We would respectfully ask that Amazon partner with all of us to help better engage our communities in a positive fashion that promotes trust and relationship building than one that clearly looks to tear at the fabrics on which we all believe."
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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Sorry, sheriff, freedom of speech. Find out where the shirt is manufactured. Would be funny if it’s made in China.