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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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The EPA probably figures the people in Chicago are already brain damaged so why throw good money after bad!
Looks like you don’t have to much pull after all Pritzker
Tribune cherry picking things again trying to beg more money from the Government. Nothing new here.
$221 will not even cover the service call for one employee. No one want to get lead poisoning (both from the pipes and from guns) to replace them.