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Peter Stein, the so-called “Boss of the Beach,” now collecting a $570,000 pension after careers with the Department of Education and Parks Department, is just the poster boy for corrupt abuse of New York public-employees benefits — and union leaders’ complete lack of shame at these absurdities is damning. And that it’s (mostly) completely legal doesn’t make it any less corrupt.[snip] He’s one of 62 new retirees who scored pensions of at least $200,000 last year, per data on the Empire Center’s SeeThroughNY website; 490 got six-figure payouts. And the total pension payout to retired city workers was about $6.2 billion — including more than $52.7 million in “back pay.”

Cambridge University is England’s second-best university, but it’s now bottom of the class. As the case of Jason Arday confirms, no one does dumb like the smart people. In 2023, Cambridge made Arday a professor. He became the professorial chair of sociology and education. These fields produce politicized gibberish and call it scientific research. [snip] Enter Jason Arday. The son of Ghanaian immigrants. An autist, epileptic and dyslexic. Arday could not read or write until he was 18. But in 2021 he was already teaching at Glasgow University. His specialty was detecting bat squeaks of racism in education policy.