- Home
- Blog
- Public Employee Pensions
- Corporate Pensions
- Social Security
- International
- Press Room
- About Us
Search
The search page has more options.
Spotlight
- CalPERS $100,000 Pension Club Saw Explosive Growth in 2012; Total Membership Is Now Almost 15,000
by Teri Sforza
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 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
- 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 April 18 7:28am PST
The complete text of these articles was e-mailed to subscribers.April 18th, 2014
- San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed Warns Claremont McKenna College Audience of Pension 'Crisis' (Ryan Hagen / San Bernadino Sun)
- New Study Evaluates California's Police and Firefighter Pensions (Robert Fellner and Ed Ring / California Policy Center)
- Fiddling While CalSTRS Burns (RiShawn Biddle / Dropout Nation)
- TO RECEIVE DAILY HEADLINE SUMMARIES VIA EMAIL >> CLICK HERE
- California Ranks Last in Government Transparency (Ken Broder / AllGov)
- Will San Luis Obispo Issue a Pension Obligation Bond? Its Unfunded Liabilities Have Soared Past $100 Million (Josh Friedman / Cal Coast News)
- Public Employee Costs Said to Drive Los Angeles' Deficits Through 2018 (James Nash / Bloomberg)
- How California's PEPRA Law Has Changed the Rules for Recent Hires (Costa Mesa Pension Oversight Committee / Daily Pilot)
- Insurance Premium Subsidy Boosted California School Superintendent's Pay to $772,457 (Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times)
- Bell's Ex-City Manager Rizzo Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison (Jeff Gottlieb, Corina Knoll & Christopher Goffard / Los Angeles Times)
- Illinois’ $76 Billion Pension Problem (RiShawn Biddle / Dropout Nation)
- Proposed Reforms to City of Chicago Pensions: What’s at Stake and How Much It Will Cost (pdf - Jason Horwitz / Anderson Economic Group)
- A Discussion of North Carolina's Unfunded Public Pension Liabilities (video - Sarah Curry / John Locke Foundation)
- Nation's Seventh Largest State Pension Fund Can't Afford a Financial Audit (Edward 'Ted' Siedle / Forbes)
- Rhode Island Retirees’ Pension Reform Challenge Moved Forward (Rebecca Moore / PlanSponsor)
- SEARCHABLE DATABASE: The CalPERS $100,000 Pension Club
- SEARCHABLE DATABASE: The CalSTRS $100,000 Pension Club
- UNSUSTAINABLE: New York City Now Has More Retired Cops Collecting Pensions Than Active Cops on the Streets (op-ed - Nicole Gelinas / New York Post)
April 17th, 2014
- CalPERS Adopts $459 Million in Pension Rate Hikes (Dale Kasler / Sacramento Bee)
- CalPERS Hikes Rate $459 Million, Funding Still Low (blog - Ed Mendel / Calpensions)
- San Jose’s Public Safety Pensions – Reduce Now or Slash Later (Ed Ring / UnionWatch)
- Generous Pensions Are What's Driving Costa Mesa Police Department's Retirements (oped - Tim Sesler / Daily Pilot)
- Huntington Beach, California Gets a Dose of Pension Fund Reality (Anthony Clark Carpio / Huntington Beach Independent)
- Study Says Pension Reform Could Save Ventura County Millions (Anna Bitong / Thousand Oaks Acorn)
- CalPERS Gives Yolo County Public Employees Lower Health Care Costs (Cynthia H. Craft / Sacramento Bee)
- Tiny City of Vernon Tops Los Angeles County's Municipal Payrolls Again (Teri Sforza / Orange County Register)
- The Laura and John Arnold Foundation Mixes Research and Politics to Help Solve Today's Public-Pension Crisis (Zachary Janowski / Philanthropy)
- Public Pensions Will Be a Burden for Us All (column - Dave Kendall / Post-Crescent)
- Obama, Michigan in Talks to Free Up $100m to Aid Detroit Pension Deal (Matt Helms, Stephen Henderson and Todd Spangler / Detroit Free Press)
- Pensioners in Detroit Rejoice, Though Deal Is Far From Done (Steven Yaccino and Monica Davey / New York Times)
- Detroit Seeks Creditor Votes With 'Divide-And-Conquer’ Strategy (Steven Church / Bloomberg)
- Rescuing Detroit From Its Own Folly (Mark Alexander / The Patriot Post)
- Illinois’ $76 Billion Pension Problem (blog - RiShawn Biddle / Dropout Nation)
- Ideology of Governance Impacts States’ Economies (column - Morris Beschloss / Desert Sun)
- Outlook for Pensions Is Pretty Awful: Bridgewater (Lawrence Delevingne / CNBC)
- PENSION PULSE: Bridgewater's Dire Outlook For Pensions? (blog - Leo Kolivakis)
April 16th, 2014
- Modesto Teachers to Meet as Vote Looms on Split From California Teachers Association (Nan Austin / Modesto Bee)
- CalPERS Paid $1.2 Billion to Wall Street Firms Last Year to Manage Its Investments (Michael B. Marois / Bloomberg)
- Detroit Reaches Deal With Retired Police and Firefighters (Melanie Hicken and Chris Isidore / CNN Money)
- Former Bell City Manager Rizzo Gets 33-Month Federal Prison Sentence for Tax Fraud (Jeff Gottlieb / Los Angeles Times)
- 'Cops’ TV Show to Follow San Jose Police Officers (Betty Yu / CBS San Franisco)
- Public Employee Unions Target Arnold Grants in Tussle Over Pension Policy (The Chronicle of Philanthropy)
- Public Pensions Watch: More on Public Employee Union Enemy John Arnold (blog - Mary Pat Campbell / STUMP)
April 15th, 2014
- Nonprofits Caught in Pension Crossfire Between Foundation, Unions (Cameron McWhirter / Wall Streeet Journal) $$
- CalSTRS Unfunded Liability Hits New High of $73.7 Billion (James Poulos / CalWatchdog)
- California's Controller Candidates Talk About CalSTRS Underfunding and More (editorial - Sacramento Bee)
- CalPERS Spends $1.3 Billion for Managing Investments in Fiscal Year 2013 (Randy Diamond / Pensions & Investments)
- The Next Time Anybody Insists California Has Recovered, Read This (Scott Shackford / Reason)
- The Rule of Ostrich on Pension Funds (blog - John Bury / Burypensions)
- Solution to Los Angeles' Pension Shortfalls? Create Another Commission! (Bob Adelmann / The New American)
Copyright 2013 by PensionTsunami.com