West Virginia sees public pension improvements over decade, but still largely...
Image via Wikipedia By Steven Allen Adams | West Virginia Watchdog CHARLESTON — Out of all 50 states, West Virginia saw the largest improvement in its public employee pension funds, but a new report...
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By Steven Allen Adams | West Virginia Watchdog CHARLESTON — The state’s unfunded public pension liabilities are shrinking after taking hits during the recent recession. Officials with the state...
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By Mark Lisheron | Texas Watchdog You might call it the Big Little Bang. On Nov. 17, the assembly for the smallest state in the Union voted by a landslide to take some pension benefits away from all of...
View ArticleWatchBlog: Latest public pension report means taxpayers still on hook for...
By Frank Keegan | Watchdog.org WASHINGTON D.C. — Write a check for more than $1 trillion today, taxpayers, to pay for state and local government pension shortages. Prepare to write another bigger one...
View ArticleWatchBlog: State, local politicians must stop deceiving the people, workers...
By Frank Keegan | Watchdog.org WASHINGTON D.C. — When even the most fiscally responsible governor of a state with the lowest hidden pension debt per household doesn’t know how bad it really is, the...
View ArticleWatchBlog: Fed, crashing markets hit taxpayers twice in public pension crisis
By Frank Keegan | Watchdog.org WASHINGTON D.C. — Hey, American taxpayers, that crashing sound we hear is a lot more than our own retirements turning into rubble. Thanks to the coordinated double whammy...
View ArticleWatchBlog: Public unions plan raid on taxpayers and private business to fill...
By Frank Keegan | Watchdog.org WASHINGTON D.C. — They know they’re trillions of dollars in the hole for false government pension promises, and that tax increases required to fill it are politically...
View ArticleCourt ruling gets attention of municipal pension officials
By Steven Allen Adams | West Virginia Watchdog CHARLESTON — An April court ruling could hurt the state’s municipal pension funds down the road. The Joint Standing Committee on Pensions and Retirement...
View ArticleBond lawyers set sights on pension disclosure
By Bill McMorris | Old Dominion Watchdog WASHINGTON, D.C. — Investment industry leaders are setting their sights on the largely unregulated public pension market in the wake of federal fraud charges...
View ArticleWatchBlog: Legislators Dither While America Crashes
By Frank Keegan frank.keegan@franklincenterhq.org SAN ANTONIO – Even as the distant rumble of falling stocks and interest rates barely penetrated the consciousness of state legislators gathered here...
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