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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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How many of the original protesters are professional protesters moving from university to university? They stir up enough trouble with students and faculty and move on to the next to push their agenda. Maybe even getting paid to do that.
I thought Neville Chamberlain was dead?
Time for the new and improved DEI
Deport Expel Incarcerate
Sounds like extortion.
NU has turned out to be such a disappointment to so many people. It started several years ago even before the worst President in its history, Shapiro, started leading it over the left wing cliff. Safe places for crybabies. Cancelling the professorship for a former military leader. Hiring left wing loonies in many departments. Letting Medill, which used to be the gold standard for journalism, slip into its current disgraceful condition. It might never recover from the slide.