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Brandon Johnson: “The city of Chicago took the dedicated revenue for pensions…”

Featuring: Brandon Johnson, Democratic | Mayor of Chicago | Illinois

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One-on-one with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson | Cap Times Idea Fest

Published | Video Starts at 34:48

And so when I, you know, expose the fact that we've had malfeasance when it comes to austere budgets, you know, you had a decision that was made where The city of Chicago took the dedicated revenue for pensions and people's retirement and decided to take that revenue to give to corporate interests to develop downtown. And this happened in the nineties, where essentially the city of Chicago spent all of the money. They spent all of the money and they didn't take care of their, the responsibilities for working people. (34:48–35:02)

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Asserts that Chicago redirected pension and retirement revenue to corporate interests for downtown development.

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