- Home
- Blog
- Public Employee Pensions
- Corporate Pensions
- Social Security
- International
- Press Room
- About Us
Search
The search page has more options.
Spotlight
- California Faces Death By Pension
by Steve Greenhut
Spotlight archivesNews Sites
- Capitol Weekly
- Contra Costa Times
- Fox Business
- Governing Magazine
- Government Executive Magazine
- Los Angeles Daily News
- Los Angeles Times
- Marin Independent Journal
- Orange County Register
- OurLA.org
- Sacramento Bee
- San Francisco Chronicle
- San Jose Mercury News
- 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 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
- 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
- RetirementReform.org
- Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity
- Rio Grande Foundation
- Rockefeller Fiscal Studies
- Sierra Environmental Studies Foundation
- State Budget Solutions
- The Free Enterprise Nation
- The Volcker Alliance
- Yankee Institute
Public Pensions News last updated January 30 1:02am PST
The complete text of these articles was e-mailed to subscribers.January 29th, 2015
- Kern County, California Declares Fiscal Emergency Amid Plummeting Oil Prices and Increasing Pension Costs (James Burger / Bakersfield Californian)
- Public Employee Pension Costs a Growing Expense for Manteca, California (Dennis Wyatt / Manteca Bulletin)
- A RESPONSE TO KEITH BRAINARD OF NASRA: Are Public Pensions Actually in a Crisis? Or Is It Just a 'Math Issue'? (blog - Mary Pat Campbell / STUMP)
- California's State Pension Funds Improve Performance, But Members Are Living Longer (Wayne Lusvardi / CalWatchdog)
- Report Card for Teacher Pension Plans: Unfunded Liabilities Total $499 Billion (blog - Susan Mangiero / Pension Risk Matters)
- READ THE REPORT: 'Doing the Math on Teacher Pensions: How to Protect Teachers and Taxpayers' (National Council on Teacher Quality)
- What's Ahead for California's Public Employee Health Benefits (column - Jon Ortiz / Sacramento Bee)
- Sacramento’s 'Wall of Debt’ Grows Dangerously High; Unfunded Liabilities Now Stand at Nearly $2.3 Billion (editorial / Sacramento Bee)
- On Autocracy and Ignoring California's Public Pension Plans' $240 Billion Shortfall (letter - Santa Clarita Valley Signal)
- Louisiana Teachers Retirement System Gets C- Grade, Study Says (Jessica Williams / The Times-Picayune)
- Louisiana Public Employees' Pensions Can't Be on Cruise Control (column - James Varney / The Times-Picayune)
- Louisiana Teachers Retirement System Won't Be Studied, State School Board Decides After Objections from Unions (Jessica Williams / The Times-Picayune
- TO RECEIVE EACH DAY'S HEADLINE SUMMARY IN YOUR EMAIL, CLICK HERE
- Public Sector Unions Gain Power, Lose Popularity, Says Economist (Nancy Thorner / Heartland Institute)
- Supreme Court Rejects Presumption of Health-Benefit Vesting, Calling for Analysis Under Ordinary Contract Principles (blog - Ronald Mann / SCOTUSblog)
- Illinois Pension Ruling May Not Impact Chicago Case, Attorney Says (Karen Pierog / Reuters)
- An Interest-Rate Increase Is Necessary for the Financial Health of Pension Plans (editorial - Pensions & Investments)
- We Need to Look at Our Public Retirement System in New Hampshire (op-ed - Bill Dermody / Concord Monitor)
- New Hampshire Retirement System Reform Needed Now; Current Defined Benefit Program Is No Longer Affordable (letter - Seacoast Online)
- West Virginia’s Long Road to Fiscal Soundness (Hoppy Kercheval / Metro News)
- Why Christie Shouldn’t Win (blog - John Bury / Burypensions)
- PhillyDeals: Thriving in a Place That Forgives, or Forgets (column - Joseph N. DiStefano / The Inquirer)
- Property Tax Levy Dipping for Portland, Oregon's Public Safety Pension and Disability Fund (Maxine Bernstein / The Oregonian)
- Congressmen Propose Dumping House Pension Program; Taxpayers Fund Retirement for Millionaires (blog - Scott Shackford / Reason)
- 1 in 3 Receiving Federal Disability Insurance Benefits Have a Mental Disorder (Ali Meyer / CNS News)
- PENSION PULSE: Soros Warns Pensions on Hedge Funds? (blog - Leo Kolivakis)
- UNSUSTAINABLE: New York City Has More Retired Cops Collecting Pensions Than Active Cops on the Streets (op-ed - Nicole Gelinas / New York Post)
- UNSUSTAINABLE: Chicago Has More Retired Cops Collecting Pensions Than Active Cops on the Streets (Nancy Mathieson / WirePoints Illinois)
- SEARCHABLE DATABASE of California Public Employees' Pay and Pensions (TransparentCalifornia.com)
January 28th, 2015
- Waning Birth Rate Will Increase Financial Stress on California (commentary - Jerrold H. Jensen / Visalia Times-Delta)
- California Gov. Jerry Brown and Public Employee Unions Set to Tangle Over Health Insurance Costs (column - Jon Ortiz / Sacramento Bee)
January 27th, 2015
January 26th, 2015
- California's Public Sector Pay: Transparency and Perspective (column - Jon Coupal / Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association)
- How Paid Sick Leave Has Been Unhealthy for California's Public Employee Pensions (blog - Ed Mendel / Calpensions)
- Pension Costs Hobble Police Hiring as San Diego Seeks Boots on the Street (Toluse Olorunnipa / Bloomberg)
January 25th, 2015
- FOR WEEKEND VISITORS -- SUNDAY:
- Deadline Looming for San Bernardino's Bankruptcy Exit Plan (editorial - Press-Enterprise)
- Is Deficient Recruiting the Real Reason for Police Understaffing in San Diego? (Ed Ring / UnionWatch)
- Detroit Workers, Retirees Filing Briefs in 8 Appeals of City’s Bankruptcy Plan (Diane Bukowski / Voice of Detroit)
- How Will Illinois' High Court Rule on Pension Reform? (Paul Merrion / Crain's Chicago Business)
- Chicago's City Lawyers Predict 'Catastrophic Outcome' if Pension Reform Is Overturned (Fran Spielman / Chicago Sun-Times)
- New Hampshire House Speaker Creates Pension Reform Study Group (Concord Monitor)
- Hedge Fund Chief: 'Sorry' for Losing It All (column - Mitch Tuchman / Forbes)
January 24th, 2015
- California Court Upholds Constitutionality of Public Employee Pension Cuts (Kenneth Ofgang / Metropolitan News-Enterprise)
- Police and Firefighters Battle in Salinas, California Battle Skyrocketing Overtime Costs (Allison Gatlin / Salinas Californian)
- NOTE TO OUR VISITORS AND SUBSCRIBERS: Reduced Publishing Schedule This Week for PensionTsunami.com
January 23rd, 2015
- Bankrupt San Bernardino to Impair Bondholders But Not CalPERS in Exit Plan, Says City Attorney (Tim Reid / Reuters)
- California's Public Pension Legal Costs Need to Be Public (op-ed - Michael Lotito & Bob Bunnell / Marin Independent Journal)
- See the California Capitol Region's 1,000 Highest-Paid Local Government Officials (Brad Branan / Sacramento Bee)
- LA 2020 and Voters Get the Bum's Rush From Herb Wesson and the Los Angeles City Council (Jack Humphreville / CityWatch LA)
Copyright 2013 by PensionTsunami.com