{"id":577746,"date":"2010-05-25T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/?p=8076"},"modified":"2010-05-25T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T12:54:00","slug":"rep-may%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9ctough-love%e2%80%9d-for-retirees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/577746","title":{"rendered":"Rep. May\u2019s \u201ctough love\u201d for retirees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/media\/Rep.-May.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8075\" title=\"Rep. May\" src=\"http:\/\/illinoiseducationassociation.org\/media\/Rep.-May.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a>Just the facts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Karen May is the Democratic State Representative from Highland Park, IL\n<ul>\n<li>Highland Park, IL\u00a0is a suburb north of Chicago. It is among the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/moneymag\/bplive\/2008\/snapshots\/PL1734722.html\"><strong>Best places to live<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>The median family income in Highland Park, IL &#8211; $148,131<\/li>\n<li>Median home price in Highland Park, IL &#8211; $600,000<\/li>\n<li>Rep. May\u2019s<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pantagraph.com\/articles\/2008\/05\/07\/news\/doc48222f52ea1cf650287381.txt\"><strong>legislative salary <\/strong><\/a>is $67,836<\/li>\n<li>Rep. May will, someday, be able to retire and receive a pension of up to 80 percent of her final salary<\/li>\n<li>The average retired state employee\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/illinoisissues.uis.edu\/archives\/2010\/02\/pension.html\"><strong>receives an annual pension<\/strong><\/a> of $22,000 ($1,833 per month)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Now <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/n\/a\/2010\/05\/24\/financial\/f153534D33.DTL&amp;type=business\">this<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>A group of Democratic legislators spoke up Monday in favor of further cost-cutting as lawmakers resumed their efforts to piece together a new spending plan from the wreckage of Illinois&#8217; budget.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The group called for about $1.3 billion in cuts, including $300 million from education and $300 million from administrative costs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Among the leaders of the group was Rep. May, who said retired government employees need to pay more for their health care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">&#8220;As much as we love our retirees, this is a tough-love exercise,&#8221; said Rep. Karen May, D-Highland Park.<\/span> &#8220;They have to feel the pain.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Feel free to discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just the facts: Karen May is the Democratic State Representative from Highland Park, IL Highland Park, IL\u00a0is a suburb north of Chicago. It is among the &#8220;Best places to live&#8221; in the U.S. The median family income in Highland Park, IL &#8211; $148,131 Median home price in Highland Park, IL &#8211; $600,000 Rep. May\u2019s legislative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5336,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5336"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}