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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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Well if the Democrats and the states attorney’s office won’t do nothing (which we all know Raoul won’t) then the people of Illinois and the people that lost are great veterans during Pritzker’s tenure and due to HIS and only HIS malfeasance need to see this thru to the fullest extent of the law. Bombard your Republicans and Democrats e mails with tons of letters, do the same to the states attorney’s office.