The Phony “Public Pension Crisis” and the Continuing Attack on Public Sector Workers
The Phony “Public Pension Crisis” and the Continuing Attack on Public Sector Workers
You can start with Dean Baker’s paper which lays out best how phony this “pension crisis” really is: http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/pensions-2011-02.pdf
Then you can bookmark the site for Baker’s Center for Economic & Policy Research: www.cepr.net
Next, there’s solid empirical information at the site for the National Association of State Retirement Administrators: www.nasra.org
And there’s also lots of good data at Boston University’s Center for Retirement Research: www.crr.bc.edu
Two more research centers which put out lots of good articles and data on the public sector are the Economic Policy Institute, at www.epi.org; and the Center for American Progress, at www.americanprogress.org
Of course, California’s two largest public pension funds each have excellently informative websites — CalPERS is at www.calpers.ca.gov; and CalSTRS is at www.calstrs.ca.gov.
Finally, there are many good periodicals with occasional articles on pensions and the latest phony “public sector crisis” of the week, including
www.thenation.com
www.prospect.org
www.inthesetimes/working.com
www.benefitslink.com
www.capitalandmain.com, where Pulitizer Prize winning Gary Cohn holds forth.
Just in — a report on a new study of the phoniness of the supposed “public pension crisis”: http://pando.com/2014/01/30/the-pension-heist-how-politicians-raid-retirement-funds-to-enrich-their-corporate-masters/
Author: Bill Sokol
