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Arizona’s Public Safety Pension Reform Plan Is Notable Fiscal Achievement
The affordability of future pension benefits, the reduced financial risk exposure for taxpayers/employers, and the ending of unfunded post-retirement benefit increase.
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Arizona’s Public Safety Pension Reform Will Help Improve the Plan’s Solvency
Changes make benefits more affordable, reduce the volatility in employer costs, and end unfunded post-retirement benefit increases
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What to do About Rhode Island’s Bad Highways
While tolling is the correct approach, all users need to pay and revenue needs to support rebuilding complete highway not just bridges
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Pull the Plug on Death Penalty In California
It has been more than 10 years since an inmate on California’s death row has been executed, and California citizens are split about what should be done about the state’s death penalty law.
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Arizona Enacts Groundbreaking Public Safety Pension Reform
Collaborative process yielded consensus on wide-ranging reforms
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Pension Reform Newsletter – February 2016
How Will GASB 68 Affect Cities' Reported Funded Status?, An Examination of Connecticut State Employees Retirement System, Milliman Annual Study on Public Pension Funding, and more
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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey Signs Comprehensive Pension Reform Legislation
Arguably more notable than the reform itself is the process used to achieve stakeholder consensus on the reform package.
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Student-Based Budgeting Newsletter, January and February 2016
“So where the public hears about efforts to close achievement gaps between minorities and white students or between higher-performing and lower-performing students, in truth different parts of the finance system are directly at odds with those stated obje