We’re going to celebrate my favorite holiday — the Fourth of July — by taking a few extra days to rejuvenate. We’ll be back with more news of escalating state and local government pension crises on Monday. – Jack Dean, Publisher

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 […]