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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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Nothing but clown drama. Lori dissed Jamal, now he mad and won’t talk to Lori. Lori mad at Jamal too! Clown drama!
Love it when they turn on each other brother sister
Jamal gree is a know nothing, ignorant race hustler with no right to make or ask for any policy decision about anything. Lori enables and emboldened this loser and now he is totally and completely supported by Sophia King, who wants to defund police. When Jamal green blocked traffic on Columbus and Roosevelt for four hours chanting F CPD he was allowed to do it and the cowardly commander Jacob Alderden of the 1st district was told to stand down and let him violate the law. This came directly from Lori and Sophia King. He needs to be investigated about… Read more »