GFRC’s Amanda Kass Quoted In Sun-Times Story On Pension Buyout

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A Better Government Association/PolitiFact/Chicago Sun-Times story on Illinois Gov. J.B Pritzker’s claims that the state’s pension buyout program could potentially save up to $25 billion, includes comments from Amanda Kass, associate director of the Government Finance Research Center at UIC. Kass says there is a limited pool of eligible people for these buyout programs that are saving some money, but not at the estimated levels. https://illinoisanswers.org/2019/11/24/fact-check-evidence-lacking-for-pritzkers-pension-buyout-claim/