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Monday, March 10, 2014

3-10-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher

Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.:



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Defined benefit versus defined contribution.
  Glen Brown.   Fred, I was thinking that some time ago you did a comparison piece of defined pensions vs. 401K’s. Given what Rauner is saying in the Chicago. Tribune, 401′s are the way he wants to go. To make a short story long, on a FB thread of a friends, one of HIS friends is saying that 401′s are okey dokey with him because he was financially savvy enough to place enough of his money into

Monday morning with pensions on my mind.
J Jay Travis is running for the Illinois House in the 26th District. Daylight savings time means it is dark at 7AM as I head out the door. I won’t be doing much posting today since I will be at the Area II meeting of the Illinois Retired Teachers Association. I’m speaking along with IRTA President Bob Pinkerton, IRTA Executive Director Jim Bachman and Bob Lyons, the Annuitant Trustee of the Teache
3-9-14 Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher
Fred Klonsky | Daily posts from a retired public school teacher who is just looking at the data.: Sunday reads.  Mayor Preckwinkle? Twelve powerful images of women in the labor movement. PBS is still hiding their cozy financial dealings with the pension thieves. Ex-guerrilla favorite to win El Salvador’s presidential election. Billionaires are bullying teachers in California. Five bad ideas about