Pension funds held by Illinois Quad-Cities governments for police and firefighters fell by $20.5 million, to $135.3 million, from 2007 to 2009, highlighting a politically charged topic that is gaining ...

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 ...

With pension reform possibly within reach, there’s a Goldilocks problem for the state lawmakers setting plans to tackle Illinois’ worst-in-the-nation pension problem. Some fixes would be too small; ...

WILDWOOD- Wildwood and North Wildwood, along with other state municipalities, wrongly allowed independent contractors to remain on pension rolls, according to the State Comptroller’s office. On ...

Gov. Phil Murphy's administration has put more than $42 billion into state pensions since he took office in 2018, putting the funds on a path to recovery. (Hal Brown for New Jersey Monitor) Pensions ...

LINCOLN — Omaha’s pension problems — which a state senator said had become “ugly” — got an airing Wednesday before a panel of state lawmakers concerned that the state might have to step in to help ...