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Time To Stop The PERS Pac-Man From Eating Teachers’ Salaries And Taxpayers’ Pocketbooks

What do Pac-Man and public pensions have in common? An intriguing 2016 national study of pension debt and teacher salaries recently answered this question. Depending on what economic assumptions are made, it’s likely that unfunded public pension liabilities for all states and local governments exceeded $6 trillion in 2017. Based on the same assumptions, Oregon’s […]
Written by Steve Buckstein June 30, 2018June 30, 2018

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