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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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Now we have to spoon feed people to be sure they eat right?
“As of June 7, about 8.5% of adults in households in the Chicago metropolitan area reported there was either sometimes or often not enough to eat, according to the Household Pulse Survey from the U.S. Census Bureau. That percentage is down from about a year ago, when nearly 12% of adults in households reported there was either sometimes or often not enough food to eat. ”
Because when you eat all of your food, then you don’t have any more food.
Food insecurity in a community that is a majority morbidly obese!
Hmmmm… think of this. Blacks have a shorter life expectancy than non black? Is the average black life expectancy the average age at death? If a large or small number of deaths are the result of murders and the victims are teens and young adults or our at most risk group would that not lower the overall life expectancy for blacks? Throw all the abortions in there too; wheel of fortune.
Food Equity, ole Rutibega be stuffing her pockets. Follow the money