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Chicago’s Solution To Public Pension Debt is a Generational Scam
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Chicago’s Solution To Public Pension Debt is a Generational Scam

In this op-ed, Jennifer Hochschild explains that Chicago is facing a financial crisis decades in the making — a crushing burden of pension debt that no current resident created but all must bear. Instead she says, it is the result of a century of political promises, underfunded commitments, and systemic avoidance — leaving Chicagoans to reckon with the consequences today.