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发帖数: 6339 | 1 WORST States For Retirement: Illinois Tops The List, California Second
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/10/worst-states-to-retire | t******2
发帖数: 2265 | 2 看人家伪州都罢工了,医州这么高的税还加税,居然不上街散步,看来需要TG输出一些通
货膨胀再刺激一下. | g******4
发帖数: 6339 | 3 医州, 医州, Chicago:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Home prices in a majority of major U.S. cities tracked by
a private trade group have fallen to their lowest levels since the housing
bubble burst.
...
Eleven of the markets hit their lowest point since the housing bust, in 2006
and 2007: Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Chicago, Detroit, Las Vegas, Miami, New
York, Phoenix, Portland, Ore., Seattle and Tampa, Fla.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Home-prices-hit-postbust-lows-apf
【在 t******2 的大作中提到】
: 看人家伪州都罢工了,医州这么高的税还加税,居然不上街散步,看来需要TG输出一些通
: 货膨胀再刺激一下.
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发帖数: 6339 | 4
As lawmakers in Wisconsin attempt to cut benefits, Illinois officials are
taking a different approach: borrowing. the state of Illinois hopes to
issue $3.7 billion in bonds.
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Illinois isn't alone in its pension challenge. In neighboring Wisconsin,
governor Scott Walker is leading an effort to reduce future pension benefits
for current employees, an unusual move. ...
Combined, states face an unfunded pension liability of about $3 trillion,
according to a paper released last fall by finance professors Robert Novy-
Marx and Joshua Rauh.
As the total state pension obligation is about $5 trillion, according to the
report, states' pension funds don't have the resources to back a large
portion of promised benefits.
......
The Illinois pension system, which was only 46 percent funded, would run out
of cash by 2018, according to the research,...
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The bond offering, experts fear, makes the problem worse.
"When I read this, quite frankly, it made me ill to my stomach, because that
pension plan has been consistently abused now for at least the last 16 or
17 years," Brad M. Smith, president-elect of the Illinois-based Society of
Actuaries, told the NYT. He added that the state's planned funding schedule
is "incredibly dangerous."
Some governments already face a pension crisis. Prichard, Alabama, illegally
stopped paying its retirees when the pension load became too much to bear.
Vallejo, Calif., entered bankruptcy when it couldn't pay its labor bills.
Under the city's new plan to leave bankruptcy, the pension obligation
remains untouched, but workers' health care and wages would be slashed.
....
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/18/illinois-pension_n_824
【在 t******2 的大作中提到】
: 看人家伪州都罢工了,医州这么高的税还加税,居然不上街散步,看来需要TG输出一些通
: 货膨胀再刺激一下.
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