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• New 'Retirement Security' Plan Will Give Cover to California's Bloated Public Employee Pensions

by Steve Greenhut

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News Sites

• Capitol Weekly
• Contra Costa Times
• Fox Business
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• Government Executive Magazine
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• Los Angeles Times
• Marin Independent Journal
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• OurLA.org
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• U-T San Diego
• Voice of San Diego
• WebCPA

Blogs

• Aging Workforce News
• Andrew Biggs
• California City News
• California State Worker
• Calpensions
• CalWatchdog.com
• CIV FI
• Fair Pensions for All (Canada)
• Financial Armageddon
• Fox & Hounds
• Friends for Fullerton's Future
• Instapundit
• International Liberty / Dan Mitchell
• John Bury
• Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
• NY Fiscal Watch
• NY Public Payroll Watch
• Orange Juice
• Overpaid Government Worker
• Pension Dumping
• Pension Fund Meltdown
• Pension Pulse
• Pension Risk Matters
• PolicePay
• Public Capital (Texas)
• Public Sector Inc.
• RockTheCapital.org (PA)
• Sierra Environmental Studies Foundation
• Sierra Madre Tattler
• The Macro View
• Uncoverage.net
• UnionWatch
• Watchdog.org

Govt Pension Sites

• California Public Employee Post-Employment Benefits Commission
• California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS)
• California Public Employers Labor Relations Association (CalPELRA)
• California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS)
• California: State Association of County Retirement Systems
• CalPERS Fact Sheet (pdf)
• Contra Costa County Employee Retirement Association
• Illinois State Retirement System
• National Association of State Retirement Administrators
• National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems
• New Jersey Public Employees Retirement System
• Official summary of the Pension Protection Act (H.R. 4)
• Orange County Employee Retirement System (OCERS)
• PBGC (Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation)
• PBGC Statistics
• San Diego City Employees Retirement System (SDCERS)
• San Diego County Employees Retirement Association (SDCERA)
• State Association of County Retirement Systems (SACRS )
• State Protections for Health Care Benefits (pdf)
• State Protections for Retirement Benefits (pdf)
• West Virginia Consolidated Public Retirement Board
• What is the PBGC?

Resources

• American Benefits Council
• BenefitsLink
• California Association of Public Retirement Systems
• California Journal of Politics and Policy
• California Local Government Finance Almanac
• California Local Government Salaries and Compensation Database
• California Public Retirement Systems Annual Reports
• California Retired Teachers Association (CalRTA)
• California State Employees Pay Database
• Calvert Institute: Baltimore City Retirement Systems Heading for Trouble
• Center for Retirement Research
• Center for State and Local Government Excellence
• CHART: Comparison of Constitutional Protections for State Retirement Plans
• Citizens In Charge
• Employee Benefit Research Institute
• Federal Pay: Myth and Realities
• Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
• GovAnalyst.com
• Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB)
• Health and Retirement Study
• Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
• How to Contact Congress
• I.O.U.S.A.
• Institute for Truth in Accounting
• Investigating Detroit's public pension boards
• Investment News
• LIVE WEBCAST: California Assembly
• LIVE WEBCAST: California Senate
• Medicare Lawsuit
• Mercer Benefit Study
• Milwaukee County Pension Scandal
• MyGovCost.org
• National Academy of Social Insurance
• National Association of State Retirement Administrators (NASRA)
• National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare
• National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems
• New Jersey Public Employee Salary Database
• Oregon's Pension Crisis In Depth
• Pacific Research Institute Pension Study
• Pension Freeze Fact Sheets
• Pension Research Council
• Peter G. Peterson Foundation
• Police Misconduct Reporting Project
• Project on Social Security Choice
• Public Pension Promises: How Big Are They and What Are They Worth?
• Public Plans Database
• Public Retirement Systems (nationwide)
• Reason Foundation Study: The Gathering Pension Storm
• Reason Magazine Pension Articles
• Retirement Catch-Up
• Retirement Security Project
• San Diego Pension Crisis
• San Diego Pension Scandal for Dummies
• SeeThroughNY
• Six-figure Los Angeles city pensions
• Social Security: 2006 Status Report
• State Budget Solutions
• Students for Saving Social Security
• Sunshine Review
• TeacherPensions.org
• Terry Savage (columnist)
• The Two Connecticuts
• Transparent Nevada
• Underfunded Union Pension Funds
• Watson Wyatt Worldwide
• You Work for Us

Taxpayer Orgs

• Central Coast Taxpayers Association
• Americans for Tax Reform
• California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility
• California Taxpayers Association
• Citizens for Limited Taxation (MA)
• Clean Up San Diego City Hall
• Contra Costa Taxpayers Association
• Encinitas Taxpayers Association
• Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association
• National Tax Limitation Committee
• National Taxpayers Union
• New Sonoma
• NY Public Payroll Watch
• Orange County Taxpayers Association
• Pension Fairness for Illinois Communities
• Pension Reform for Illinois
• Sacramento Taxpayers League
• San Diego County Taxpayers Association
• Santa Barbara County Taxpayers Association
• Shasta County Taxpayers Association
• Silicon Valley Taxpayers' Association
• Sunnyvale Pension Reform
• Ventura County Taxpayers Association
• Yolo County Taxpayers Association
• YourPublicMoney.com

Pension News Sites

• Benefit News
• BenefitsLink
• California Healthline
• Fox Business Channel
• Global Pensions
• Leage of California Cities
• Marin County Pension Reform
• Pension Crisis: The Gathering Storm
• Pensions & Investments
• PlanSponsor.com
• Real Pension Reform (San Diego)
• Retirements in Peril (MarketWatch)
• State Budget Solutions
• The Bond Buyer
• Workforce Management

Think Tanks

• Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions
• Calvert Institute
• Cato Institute
• Claremont Institute
• Commonwealth Foundation (PA)
• Empire Center for New York State Policy
• Heartland Institute
• Illinois Policy Institute
• Independent Institute
• Institute for Policy Innovation
• Ludwig von Mises Institute
• Manhattan Institute
• National Center for Policy Analyisi
• National Center for Policy Analysis
• Pacific Research Institute
• Pensions Institute [UK]
• Pew Charitable Trusts
• Reason Foundation
• Retirement Security Initiative
• RetirementReform.org
• Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity
• Rio Grande Foundation
• Rockefeller Fiscal Studies
• Sierra Environmental Studies Foundation
• State Budget Solutions
• The Volcker Alliance
• Yankee Institute

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