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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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West Virginia public employee pensions see improvement

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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Pension reformers warn of looming breaking point, cite governments’‘actuarial...

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...

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WatchBlog: 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...

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WatchBlog: 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...

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WatchBlog: 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...

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WatchBlog: 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...

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Court 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...

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Bond 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...

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WatchBlog: 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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