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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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Standard woke/racist nonsense. Not worth the time it takes to read.
Black and white chemists need to form more covalent bonds.
Reading through the article , all I read was racist blather. Science doesn’t care if you are woke or white or black. Either you have the chops to do it or you do not. Take your CRT racism somewhere else.
Nothing but hot air from a dodo who could not make it through hardcore science subjects. It takes hard work as well as perseverance to obtain a STEM degree. I worked for my UICC hardcore STEM degree because I wanted out of the ghetto (Woodlawn) in spite of losing my dad at 14, poverty and living in back of storefront without hot water or a bathtub. My black chemistry teacher inspired me and as a principal renamed his high school after Percy Julian, a black chemist and father of modern latex paint industry. If your interest is money and not… Read more »
Kudos!
I guess “insufficient educational preparation in math and science at the K-12 level” was too obvious.
Systemic racism is a hoax and a fraud — anyone who says otherwise is a race clown con artist
Science classes contain considerable amounts of normal mathematics, not common core attempted math. Therefore look at math scores of Chicago blacks and perhaps you will see the answer
Quick question, is common core math also racist?