Politicians Accelerate Chicago’s Race to Ruin
Chicago's financial crisis deepens due to reckless union-backed legislation increasing pension liabilities, with leaders failing to take corrective action.

Actuaries trying to accurately reflect the state of the California pension system were rebuffed by the CalPERS Board lead by Neal Johnson of the Service Employees International Union who told the Board it was better to hide reality. “I was afraid we were going to throw gasoline on the fire in the public pension debate,” Johnson told a CalPERS committee after a key vote.
Wouldn’t union members and pensioners rather know the true state of the pension fund?
Chicago's financial crisis deepens due to reckless union-backed legislation increasing pension liabilities, with leaders failing to take corrective action.
Since Big Labor-backed legislation repealing Right to Work protections for employees went into effect in early 2024, the state has gone from adding jobs to losing them.
"Helping people like Zohran Mamdani get elected makes far less sense to ordinary workers, whether they are unionized or union-free."