Jun. 14—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 ...

Across the U.S., public pension unfunded liabilities generally decreased, falling about 9 percent from $1.62 trillion in 2024 ...

Peoria officials are growing ever more concerned about how the city will pay for ballooning pension costs associated with police officers and firefighters. This year, the city of Peoria will pay $33.3 ...

There is a growing level of concern from some members of the Peoria City Council about how the city's ballooning public safety pension costs and the end of the Illinois grocery tax will impact city ...

Canadian pensions are underinvested in the country’s public markets, starving domestic companies of capital and exposing them to foreign takeovers, says the head of capital markets at Desjardins Group ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio --An obscure but lucrative perk in some public-sector contracts — governments paying part of an employee’s pension contribution — is up for debate at the Ohio Statehouse. House Bill 473 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Montana’s pensions for our government employees are in trouble. We need to have a candid discussion of the costs the state faces to make pensions solvent. Montana has nine public-pension systems: one ...

KABUL (Reuters) - In a country not short of problems, a looming pensions crisis that could cripple Afghanistan's budget in coming years is a new headache for a government dependent on increasingly war ...