The number of public retirees receiving more than $100,000 in pension checks from CalPERS each year has exploded from 1,841 in 2005 to 21,652 in 2015.
Are we fiddling while Rome burns?
CalPERS just had its worst showing since the height of the last financial crisis.
Stanford’s new pension tracker says unfunded pension debt is approaching $1 trillion.
$200 million is pretty decent savings no matter how ya slice it.
Pensions, the pot of gold at the end of the public service tunnel. They are always a hot topic, and even more so in recent years.
By Robb Korinke
One week out from the Iowa Caucuses I thought I’d share my tracking of the race for local endorsements among our remaining Democratic Party candidates.
Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a $222.2 billion budget proposal for 2020-21 on Friday – the second annual spending plan he has presented as governor and the largest in state history.
Local governments’ opposition to Scott Wiener’s SB50 is already well known. But the initiative is now facing more pushback from another group: low-income residents and their allies.
Campaigns have access to more voters, polling, and media data than at any time in history. But the quality, accuracy, and reliability of this data is being questioned more than ever.