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Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund goes five years with no growth

By Jonathan Ingram
02/25/2013
The Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund, or CTPF, lost money last year. Although pension trustees predicted the fund would earn $778 million in fiscal year 2012, the fund actually lost more than $38 million. The system posted an investment return of -0.4 percent, far below the 8 percent expected. That brings the five-year average return to...

Contagion: Strike fever spreads across Illinois

By Paul Kersey
02/04/2013
  [updated Feb. 4, 2013] With the Chicago Teachers Union having waged a largely successful strike against the Chicago Public Schools, we can expect to see other public school unions, and maybe other government employee unions, following their example. Strikes allow unions to preserve costly wages and benefits, or block needed reforms, by shutting down...

PRESS RELEASE: Governor fails to lead on Illinois’ most pressing issues

01/31/2013
MEDIA ALERT from the ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE MEDIA CONTACT: Diana Rickert Diana@IllinoisPolicy.org or (312) 607-4977   Illinois Policy Institute statement on “State of the State” address: Governor fails to lead on Illinois’ most pressing issues In Chicago: CEO John Tillman, VP of Policy Ted Dabrowski In Springfield: Executive VP Kristina RasmussenNews outlets: For video with...

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