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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 ever happened to exercise, healthy food and building strong families? The goal should be to develop agency and motivate, not screen them for defects after exposing them to vice and deviancy.
Tennessee School Board Protects Kids & Kicks Out Behavioral Health Provider
Mental health screenings by unqualified school employees just a way for progressives to identify and label students not being brainwashed by the far left. Screen school administrators and teachers. That would be interesting.
and way to launder Millions of dollars to be wasted on additional union members.