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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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Bravo to this woman for stepping forward and opposing the cultural Marxists.
In truly hope Evanston schools are on the hook big time for this! They are the race baiters!
Fire them all, including that sup!
It’s part of the North Shore Virtue signaling contest. They also pay the highest rates for sweeping and mopping
“District 65, which serves a deep blue corner of the North Shore”
I never understood why the North Shore is as deep blue as the inner city. That tells you a lot considering that these two voting blocs stay as far away from each other as humanly possible but share the same ideology.
This is only the start of things.