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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 late Sherman Skolnick (Citizens to Clean Up the Courts) would have been overjoyed.
Spinning in his grave like the measuring disc inside the electric meter at one of JB the Hutt’s many mansions, the late Albert Jenner bemoans both the ideological fall of the law firm that bears his name and the profession of which he was an adherent. RIP, Al. The kids are not alright.