NCPERS News Clips

November 1, 2011

News Clips for November 1st, 2011

• Mary Williams Walsh, asleep in Rhode Island
  In her 2,500 word feature on the pension reform process in Rhode Island, New York Times reporter Mary Williams Walsh seems to have found more color than facts.
• JUDGE SOUNDS SKEPTICAL OF PENSION PLAN CHANGES
  A judge tasked with deciding the fate of an overhaul of the state's pension plan voiced extreme skepticism about the plan Wednesday, endangering one of the key accomplishments of the last legislative session and threatening to blow a nearly billion-dollar hole in the current budget.
• Florida's New Pension Contribution for Public Employees Goes to Court
  Florida teachers say Gov. Rick Scott and state lawmakers violated the constitution and broke a contract when they decided to force public employees to pay 3 percent of their salaries toward pensions.
• Pay freeze for public employees announced
  In an effort to reign-in the state's spending, Gov. Scott Walker's administration introduced a plan that would mostly freeze public employee's pay for the next two years.
• Ohio law limiting public employee unions' power faces repeal
  Opposition to the Ohio law that limits the power of public employee unions has grown substantially in recent weeks, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday, offering a ray of hope to Democrats and their allies in organized labor as the presidential race heats up.
• How about a race to reform state pensions?
  President Obama has proposed that the federal government provide $35 billion to assist state budgets. It’s a fine idea — provided there's a carrot.
• Behind New York's Pension Changes, a Quest for Higher Returns
  Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and New York's comptroller, John C. Liu, should perhaps call their ambitious plan to revamp the city's five public-employee retirement funds “No Pension Plan Left Behind.”
• GOP legislators: PERS 'is an irrevocable contract'
  The Mississippi Legislature has long acknowledged the fact that the state cannot afford to match the pay scale of the private sector. Yet, Mississippi has been fortunate to recruit and retain quality employees by providing an attractive and very competitive retirement plan.
•  Brown's pension plan leaves out CalSTRS
  Despite two years of lobbying from the teachers' retirement fund, a plan to shore up CalSTRS' finances was missing from Gov. Jerry Brown's pension reform proposal this week.

NCPERS News Clips

November 1, 2011

News Clips for November 1st, 2011

• Mary Williams Walsh, asleep in Rhode Island
  In her 2,500 word feature on the pension reform process in Rhode Island, New York Times reporter Mary Williams Walsh seems to have found more color than facts.
• JUDGE SOUNDS SKEPTICAL OF PENSION PLAN CHANGES
  A judge tasked with deciding the fate of an overhaul of the state's pension plan voiced extreme skepticism about the plan Wednesday, endangering one of the key accomplishments of the last legislative session and threatening to blow a nearly billion-dollar hole in the current budget.
• Florida's New Pension Contribution for Public Employees Goes to Court
  Florida teachers say Gov. Rick Scott and state lawmakers violated the constitution and broke a contract when they decided to force public employees to pay 3 percent of their salaries toward pensions.
• Pay freeze for public employees announced
  In an effort to reign-in the state's spending, Gov. Scott Walker's administration introduced a plan that would mostly freeze public employee's pay for the next two years.
• Ohio law limiting public employee unions' power faces repeal
  Opposition to the Ohio law that limits the power of public employee unions has grown substantially in recent weeks, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday, offering a ray of hope to Democrats and their allies in organized labor as the presidential race heats up.
• How about a race to reform state pensions?
  President Obama has proposed that the federal government provide $35 billion to assist state budgets. It’s a fine idea — provided there's a carrot.
• Behind New York's Pension Changes, a Quest for Higher Returns
  Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and New York's comptroller, John C. Liu, should perhaps call their ambitious plan to revamp the city's five public-employee retirement funds “No Pension Plan Left Behind.”
• GOP legislators: PERS 'is an irrevocable contract'
  The Mississippi Legislature has long acknowledged the fact that the state cannot afford to match the pay scale of the private sector. Yet, Mississippi has been fortunate to recruit and retain quality employees by providing an attractive and very competitive retirement plan.
•  Brown's pension plan leaves out CalSTRS
  Despite two years of lobbying from the teachers' retirement fund, a plan to shore up CalSTRS' finances was missing from Gov. Jerry Brown's pension reform proposal this week.

NCPERS News Clips

November 1, 2011

News Clips for November 1st, 2011

• Mary Williams Walsh, asleep in Rhode Island
  In her 2,500 word feature on the pension reform process in Rhode Island, New York Times reporter Mary Williams Walsh seems to have found more color than facts.
• JUDGE SOUNDS SKEPTICAL OF PENSION PLAN CHANGES
  A judge tasked with deciding the fate of an overhaul of the state's pension plan voiced extreme skepticism about the plan Wednesday, endangering one of the key accomplishments of the last legislative session and threatening to blow a nearly billion-dollar hole in the current budget.
• Florida's New Pension Contribution for Public Employees Goes to Court
  Florida teachers say Gov. Rick Scott and state lawmakers violated the constitution and broke a contract when they decided to force public employees to pay 3 percent of their salaries toward pensions.
• Pay freeze for public employees announced
  In an effort to reign-in the state's spending, Gov. Scott Walker's administration introduced a plan that would mostly freeze public employee's pay for the next two years.
• Ohio law limiting public employee unions' power faces repeal
  Opposition to the Ohio law that limits the power of public employee unions has grown substantially in recent weeks, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday, offering a ray of hope to Democrats and their allies in organized labor as the presidential race heats up.
• How about a race to reform state pensions?
  President Obama has proposed that the federal government provide $35 billion to assist state budgets. It’s a fine idea — provided there's a carrot.
• Behind New York's Pension Changes, a Quest for Higher Returns
  Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and New York's comptroller, John C. Liu, should perhaps call their ambitious plan to revamp the city's five public-employee retirement funds “No Pension Plan Left Behind.”
• GOP legislators: PERS 'is an irrevocable contract'
  The Mississippi Legislature has long acknowledged the fact that the state cannot afford to match the pay scale of the private sector. Yet, Mississippi has been fortunate to recruit and retain quality employees by providing an attractive and very competitive retirement plan.
•  Brown's pension plan leaves out CalSTRS
  Despite two years of lobbying from the teachers' retirement fund, a plan to shore up CalSTRS' finances was missing from Gov. Jerry Brown's pension reform proposal this week.

NCPERS News Clips

November 1, 2011

News Clips for November 1st, 2011

• Mary Williams Walsh, asleep in Rhode Island
  In her 2,500 word feature on the pension reform process in Rhode Island, New York Times reporter Mary Williams Walsh seems to have found more color than facts.
• JUDGE SOUNDS SKEPTICAL OF PENSION PLAN CHANGES
  A judge tasked with deciding the fate of an overhaul of the state's pension plan voiced extreme skepticism about the plan Wednesday, endangering one of the key accomplishments of the last legislative session and threatening to blow a nearly billion-dollar hole in the current budget.
• Florida's New Pension Contribution for Public Employees Goes to Court
  Florida teachers say Gov. Rick Scott and state lawmakers violated the constitution and broke a contract when they decided to force public employees to pay 3 percent of their salaries toward pensions.
• Pay freeze for public employees announced
  In an effort to reign-in the state's spending, Gov. Scott Walker's administration introduced a plan that would mostly freeze public employee's pay for the next two years.
• Ohio law limiting public employee unions' power faces repeal
  Opposition to the Ohio law that limits the power of public employee unions has grown substantially in recent weeks, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday, offering a ray of hope to Democrats and their allies in organized labor as the presidential race heats up.
• How about a race to reform state pensions?
  President Obama has proposed that the federal government provide $35 billion to assist state budgets. It’s a fine idea — provided there's a carrot.
• Behind New York's Pension Changes, a Quest for Higher Returns
  Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and New York's comptroller, John C. Liu, should perhaps call their ambitious plan to revamp the city's five public-employee retirement funds “No Pension Plan Left Behind.”
• GOP legislators: PERS 'is an irrevocable contract'
  The Mississippi Legislature has long acknowledged the fact that the state cannot afford to match the pay scale of the private sector. Yet, Mississippi has been fortunate to recruit and retain quality employees by providing an attractive and very competitive retirement plan.
•  Brown's pension plan leaves out CalSTRS
  Despite two years of lobbying from the teachers' retirement fund, a plan to shore up CalSTRS' finances was missing from Gov. Jerry Brown's pension reform proposal this week.