As cities across the nation increasingly become mired in financial crises due to public employee pensions and health care costs, debt and overspending, PBS correspondent Spencer Michels profiles one city making efforts to avoid bankruptcy: Stockton, California:

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Providence Mayor Angel Taveras made a direct pitch yesterday to more than 800 city retirees to accept reduced pensions and less generous health care coverage to help the city avoid a bankruptcy filing: Mayor: Smaller pensions will save Providence (WPRI-TV)