FILE - In this June 6, 2012 file photo Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, left, registers for her ballot during a strike authorization vote at a high school in Chicago. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel last week announced an agreement with several unions to help bail out the nation’s worst-funded city pension systems, a festering problem inherited from his predecessor, Richard M. Daley. Emanuel said the deal, which would slice Chicago’s nearly $20 billion shortfall in half by cutting benefits and raising property taxes, would keep the funds from insolvency and avoid massive cuts in services and a record tax hike. Among its opponents is Lewis who calls the pension plan “criminal” and “just awful,” saying it will hit school employees _ who don’t receive Social Security and are predominantly women of color _ with both a loss of benefits and, for those who own homes, a property tax increase they can’t afford to pay. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green,File)
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