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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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Typical Tribune. Of course Tribune…Gosh it will be so hard for him to find an unqualified buddy that needs a high paying patronage job and place them in that job. Don’t forget the private SVU and driver…
How hard is it to just ask Stacy who the CTU wants? That’s who it will be. If the new person has problems, they will be Trump’s fault.
They should have this down to a science by now.