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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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Crooked corrupt teacher unions have shit-housed public schools and their enrollment has crashed. This is why home schooling, private schooling, are both exploding
https://southernmarylandchronicle.com/2022/03/10/homeschooling-private-school-enrollment-increase-as-public-enrollment-decreases-during-covid-pandemic/
The way the system is set up if you home school to give them a better education you still have to pay for the public school system and that cost is mostly based on the value of your house/property not your ability to pay.