"Pensions are in debt paralysis mode now," says Anenson, a business law professor. "Governments are cutting their budgets to keep pensions afloat, so it's a public problem. Everyone's taxes might go ...

J.B. Pritzker played a rotten trick recently on legislators poised to get down to business during the spring legislative ...

The governor's plan calls for fully funding pensions by 2048, rather than 90% by 2045. He also calls for devoting extra ...

For decades, Oregon’s public pension system has been kept afloat by a gusher of income from its investments in private equity, opaque private partnerships that typically buy companies, manage them, ...

ALBANY — The state’s massive pension funds serving nearly 1.7 million public workers and retirees are expected to weather the turmoil in the stock market and the prospect of additional drops despite ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Economic uncertainty, a shrinking workforce and retirees who live longer have strained public pensions in the United States. Many of the approximately ...

Several troubling bills in the California legislature are aiming to reverse critical cost-containment and risk-management public pension reforms that have stabilized the state’s pension systems and ...

Illinois has been struggling to meet its pension obligations for over 100 years, and Governor Pritzker has proposed using ...

Six months ago, plugged-in Chicago politico Forrest Claypool sounded the alarm about rising pensions debts and called for dramatic action to bring them under control. A longtime Democratic Party ...