Mayor Johnson and Chicago's public pension debt.
Mayor Lightfoot broke with recent Chicago mayors by making payments to to the city’s pension funds by paying more than a $1 billion in the last three years to meet statutory funding mandates.
As I have explained here before, a statutory mandate is simply made up by politicians. Actuarial payments are what are needed to meet the cost of the pension obliga…
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