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Search results for "pension reform" ...
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Public Pensions: A Soaring Burden
The series included an in-depth look at the questionable public pension practices in Arizona which were costing taxpayers nearly $1.4 billion. The findings prompted a discussion of pension reform among elected officials, as well as support for reform proposals in the 2011 legislative session.
Tags: pension; public pension; public records; pension systems; taxpayer money
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New Jersey's Pension Peril
This four-part series investigates the state of New Jersey's beleaguered pension system. The authors discovered a concerted effort by government insiders to cripple the public pension system through generous giveaways, financial gimmickry and outright abuse. Gross mismanagement cost the fund $18 billion dollars in less than 2 years.
Tags: pension; pension reform; fraud; state government; pension system; Open Public Records Law; pension payments; corruption
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The Boston Globe investigates the Massachusetts' disability retirement system, once hailed as a national model as it provides $185 million in annual pensions to 11,266 state and local workers injured on the job. But in fact, after a vaulted reform effort in the early 1980s, the system quietly dissolved into the worst kind of bureaucracy - rife with costly waste and abuse, and run by functionaries unaware of its failings and unable to complete its mission. (May 12-14, 1996)
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Runaway Pensions: Fire, police pensions stir cries for reform
Milwaukee Journal series on disability pensions for city police and firefighters finds the city doing little to control the rising number of claims or to investigate their validity despite the high cost to taxpayers.