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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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Goodbye. And Good Riddance.
Utter failure on all fronts.
Just what Freddie Pritzker wanted.
She did a terrible job. She should have been fired.
Also stupid that she says she is an inspiration for black girls (only black girls?) and that she is a powerful woman to show young men how women are in the work place.
So her job is all about race and gender, and little about science or medicine.
Which explains why she did a terrible job.
The actress is leaving the stage.