Focus: Research Prof. Justin Marlowe (audio)
September 11, 2024

Professor Justin Marlowe heads the University of Chicago's Center for Municipal Finance, and he said when cities face a budget deficit like Chicago's, all options are bad. However, a hiring freeze is probably the least bad.

''I mean, Chicago has roughly $4 billion a year that it spends on personnel at any moment, if you think that somewhere in the neighborhood of about 5% to 10% of that $4 billion is positions that are open or positions that are in the process of being filled.

Read the full story here: https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/expert-says-city-hiring-freeze-is-the-best-of-the-worst 

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Justin Marlowe
Research Professor

Justin Marlowe is a Research Professor in the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, where he also serves as Director of the Center for Municipal Finance. His research and teaching are focused on public finance, with emphasis on public capital markets, infrastructure finance, state an...