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25 Feb 2011, 1:32 pm by WIMS
" Anne Stausboll, chief executive officer of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), the nation's largest public pension fund, which provided input on the report said, "As a long-term investor, we need a clear account of the environmental challenges and opportunities facing the companies we choose to invest in. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 9:58 am by David Post
Daniels (R-Indiana) is surely not the only politician who would have liked to have seen the fights over public sector unions, their pensions and their bargaining rights and all the rest, put off until another day. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 8:19 am by James R. Copland
Overall, labor unions and their pension funds introduced 70 proposals related to executive compensation to Fortune 100 companies since 2008, constituting over 38 percent of all identified proposals coming to a vote. [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 9:00 pm
In its study of public pensions, the Commission found that the state’s 10 largest pension funds – encompassing 90 percent of all public employees – are overextended in their promises to current workers and retirees. [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 10:36 am by LindaMBeale
 [They fund] Tea Party groups Americans for Prosperity, FreedomWorks, and Citizens for a Sound Economy. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 8:59 pm by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk)
What's more, the business and job-generating engine was sputtering even before the recession took hold, new census data shows Chicago is losing residents, costly parking meters and high property taxes remain flashpoints, and long-term neglect of public-worker pension funds has backed the city into a financial corner. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 8:59 pm by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk)
What's more, the business and job-generating engine was sputtering even before the recession took hold, new census data shows Chicago is losing residents, costly parking meters and high property taxes remain flashpoints, and long-term neglect of public-worker pension funds has backed the city into a financial corner. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 3:38 pm by Glenn Reynolds
That’s the huge deficit facing public workers’ pensions in America and the reason Walker and other state governors are facing tough choices including demanding public workers contribute more. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 2:00 am by Keith Paul Bishop
Last week in this post, I wrote about the California Controller John Chiang’s announced intention to sponsor legislation to shut the revolving door between California’s two largest public retirement systems, CalPERS and CalSTRS, and the private sector. [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 4:27 am
Courts are generally a small percentage, but prosecutors and public defenders are part of the state employment system and are included in pension and health costs.States can't afford it anymore. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 10:30 am by LindaMBeale
Look at the states, where GOP governors are using deficits caused by long-term tax cuts and low taxes that didn't raise enough money to pay their pension obligations that they could easily have funded to now benefit (again) big business and the wealthy. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 5:19 am by SHG
  When was the last time a Union negotiated over a pension for all Americans who are pensionless? [read post]
20 Feb 2011, 6:13 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
In 1999, Prtichard declared bankruptcy; the city ignored a court order to replenish pension fund. [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 11:23 am by LindaMBeale
 Get rid of public employee unions (and reneg on pension promises made years ago at the same time). [read post]
19 Feb 2011, 8:21 am by annalthouse@gmail.com (Ann Althouse)
But it's hard to complain and appear sympathetic, because we're only being asked to go from paying 0.2% of the payments our salary into our pension fund to 5.8%, which probably looks astoundingly low to outsiders. [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 9:39 am by HR Hero
The bill takes a tough stance on collective bargaining, public pension funding, and public health insurance. [read post]