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U.S. public pension systems are short nearly $6 trillion, Stanford study finds

Friday, December 2nd, 2016

Pension Tracker, a Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) project, estimates total United States public pension debt (a.k.a., unfunded liabilities) in June 2015 at $5.599 trillion, a 16 percent increase over 2014. The project is directed by Joe Nation, a former state lawmaker, SIEPR researcher, and Professor of the Practice of Public Policy at […]

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