Bob Lyons. Pension underfunding. Whose fault?
Bob Lyons was elected to represent retirees on the TRS board of trustees. For TRS’s actuaries to make a determination of what the state will need to contribute in future years, the System Board must decide on an assumed rate of return on our investments in the future. The problem of course is can you assume that the expected rate of return going forward will be in anyway similar to the past? Th
I told Obama to go for single payer. But did he listen? No.
Anne and me in 2009. As I probably point out too often, as a local union leader before retiring I participated in contract bargaining at least a dozen times. With the support of our members, our elected bargaining team almost always took the view that we should settle the salary issue first. While benefits were important, they were something that could be taken away in later negotiations. It wa
8-4-13 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Sunday summer reads. Photo: Arthur Goldstein North Carolina cuts teacher certification requirements for charter schools. Does it help to throw money at schools? Yes. If you can’t get it there any other way. Revealing the corporate and business interests in the DePaul basketball arena deal. St. Vincen
