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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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What Mr. Vallas has written is so true. Yet, the people of Chicago voted for Brandon Johnson for Mayor. Johnson is the personification of all that is wrong with the educational system in Chicago. They voted for J.B Pritzker for governor ! Pritzker who, in spite of the overwhelming support for school choice in so many other states, refuses to give that same opportunity to the children of Illinois. Instead he chooses to ally himself with the far left leaning (and teaching) teachers union. Until we have opportunity for school choice in Illinois, parents must either home-school or bear the oftentimes onerous burden of private… Read more »
Sorta of like Pro Choice.
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BJ The Race Clown is CTU’s paid prostitute. Chicago Dems/Union racketeers want kids locked in failed union schools