Jul. 1—A Stanford University study about state education spending increases being consumed by teacher pension costs paints a disturbing picture of Illinois' future. The point made by the study's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 14—Six months ago, plugged-in Chicago politico Forrest Claypool sounded the alarm about rising pensions debts and called for ...

Illinois faces a defining fiscal challenge: a staggering $144 billion in unfunded liabilities across its five state pension systems. This immense burden strains state resources; crowds out critical ...

New research finds U.S. public pension plans have shifted to more diverse investment portfolios, which enabled these funds to grow, deliver reliable benefits, and withstand market turmoil during and ...

The Wisconsin Policy Research Institute has issued a report on pension benefits for public employees. The report quantified what most of us already know — public employees can retire a lot sooner than ...

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 ...

Bermuda’s public service pension funds will run out of money in 2045, meaning that today’s public servants — and some pensioners — will have no pension in two decades’ time unless something changes.

Problems with public sector employees’ pension funds surface again in “Pa. senator’s fight for transparency … ” (The Morning Call, April 1). State Sen. Katie Muth, D-Berks, a board member overseeing ...