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Hard Choices Still Must be Made
Click here for a printer-friendly version of this articleIn a recent essay in the Washington Post, EJ Dionne argued that we had no choice but to accept that government would grow larger in the future...
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The High Cost of Hidden Pension Promises
Click here for a printer-friendly version of this articleFor mayors across the country a single budget item threatens their cities’ capacity to maintain parks, keep the streets safe, pick up the trash...
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Pension Woes and State Government Largesse
Click here for a printer-friendly version of this articleEarlier this week in a piece for e21, Stephen Goldsmith discussed the gravity of the pension shortfalls and the toll it will take on state...
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The High Price of Pensions Continues
Recently, more attention is being paid to the dramatic shortfall in state pension liabilities that will quickly be affecting budgets across the country. As e21 pointed out here and here, future...
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Fairly Understanding the Simpson-Bowles Social Security Proposal
Click here for a printer-friendly version of this articleCo-chairs Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles of President Obama’s Fiscal Responsibility Commission surprised the political world Wednesday when...
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Why Public Sector Union Compensation Matters
Click here for a printer-friendly version of this articleTaxpayers, including unionized private sector workers, are becoming increasingly aware of the generous benefits secured by public employees and...
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In Defense of the Simpson-Bowles Social Security Plan: Part 2
Click here for a printer-friendly version of this article.This is the second of two pieces explaining why I have a more favorable view of the Simpson-Bowles Social Security plan than that expressed in...
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The Administration’s PBGC Premium Proposal Deserves Support
Click here for a printer-friendly version of this article.In this year’s budget submission, the Obama Administration included a proposal to partially reform the finances of the Pension Benefit Guaranty...
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The Turnaround Washington Needs: Governor Romney’s most important mission, if...
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney spent many years at Bain Capital, which specializes in “turning around” failing businesses. Bain, and companies like it, invests in firms with broken business...
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Riordan's federal pension bailout
Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, who has been a prescient critic of current state and local pension plans, published a piece earlier this week in the New York Times with former journalist Tim...
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Four Pension Myths
Public awareness of state and local governments' pension struggles is now at an all-time high, thanks to increased media attention in recent years. Though generally a welcome development, there are...
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A Wake-Up Call for Public Pension Systems
Teaser: A new study from Moody’s Investors Service, the bond credit rating business, reports that the level of unfunded liabilities for the 25 largest state and local U.S. public pensions is now more...
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Young Americans Have Yet Another Debt Burden
Teaser: Look in the mirror. Along with everyone else in America, you owe $15,052 to cover the total unfunded pension liabilities of state governments. Both red and blue states face towering unfunded...
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