Category: Pension Security
- 01/13/12 Killing Pensions to Benefit the 1 Percent Wall Street Journal continues its push to gut the retirement security of American workers.
- 11/14/11 Rhode Island Public Employees Call on Legislature to Keep the Promise Over 5,000 union members and supporters rally at the statehouse to oppose pension overhaul plan.
- 09/15/11 Rhode Island Public Workers Win Key Pension Ruling Judge rules R.I. public employees should have their day in court in pension battle.
- 06/30/11 Telling the Truth about Public Pension Systems Pension experts rebut the myth that public pensions are unsustainable.
- 05/16/11 State Revenues Are Coming Back. Walker Says, ‘So What?’ Despite revenue collections beating expectations, right-wing governors move ahead with plans to slash public services.
- 04/26/11 Telling the Whole Story About Public Employee Pension Funds Pew Center on the States portrays the public pension system as "broken," but the facts don't back that up.
- 03/14/11 Maryland AFSCME Members to Rally in Annapolis Today Protest targets proposed budget cuts to public services and education, changes to retirement security and health care benefits.
- 03/11/11 Republicans Take Aim at Social Security Republican legislators in both the U.S. House and Senate have now started moving toward cutting Social Security.
- 03/09/11 Origins of the So-Called Pension Crisis Noted economist Dean Baker has written what could be best described as the definitive explanation of the state of public sector pension plans.
- 02/09/11 O'Reilly Spreads Lies About Public Employee Pensions FACT: The average annual pension of an AFSCME retiree is $19,000. As Pres. Gerald W. McEntee wrote in USA Today, the real problems facing cities and states were caused by Wall Street, not public workers.
