Cutting the generous pensions received by doctors, teachers and civil servants is becoming a go-to suggestion from politicians looking to cut spending or boost upfront pay in the public sector, in ...

Comptroller praises independent pension review as Democratic and Republican challengers attack fund management ahead of 2026 election.

An in-depth look into Illinois' pension problem.

ALBANY — The state’s massive pension funds serving nearly 1.7 million public workers and retirees are expected to weather the turmoil in the stock market and the prospect of additional drops despite ...

Recent stock market volatility and shaky economic conditions should remind policymakers that there are many scenarios where California’s public pension debt could grow significantly in the years ahead ...

It’s a critical time to fix Illinois’ pension program for public-sector employees hired after 2011 — but it may not happen this fall, state Rep. Jay Hoffman told pension-eligible employees of Southern ...

Several troubling bills in the California legislature are aiming to reverse critical cost-containment and risk-management public pension reforms that have stabilized the state’s pension systems and ...

For decades, Oregon’s public pension system has been kept afloat by a gusher of income from its investments in private equity, opaque private partnerships that typically buy companies, manage them, ...

Six months ago, plugged-in Chicago politico Forrest Claypool sounded the alarm about rising pensions debts and called for dramatic action to bring them under control. A longtime Democratic Party ...

High volumes of customer calls, backlogs and complex requests blamed for shaky start to life on civil service pension scheme ...