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.
“Trump’s action followed a shift of public opinion on intolerance of
race-basedCRIME BASED policing as the Black Lives Matter movement mainstreamed after the Floyd death.”There, I fixed it! It’s not like some races get away with crimes and others don’t. Well, actually, they do, given the abysmal rate they solve shootings and murders.