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Advocates hoped the state would become less reliant on large institutions for people with developmental disabilities when they filed a lawsuit in 2005, alleging that Illinois’ failure to adequately fund community living options ended up segregating people with intellectual and developmental disabilities from society by forcing them to live in institutions. Negotiations resulted in a consent decree, a court-supervised improvement plan. Now, the state has asked a judge to consider ending the consent decree, citing significant increases in the number of people receiving community-based services.
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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If Pritzker wasn’t busy spending money on illegal immigrants who enter this country and begin stealing left and right, maybe the resources would be there to help unfortunate individuals like this young lady. A state with a high tax burden like Illinois should be caring for the most vulnerable first. Instead we have political grifters and illegals taking those resources.