public-pensions

Consider what was supposed to be the headline reform of Mr Bush's second term, an overhaul of Social Security (public pensions).

It took a simple majority vote to increase public pensions, but it would take a two-thirds supermajority to raise taxes to pay for them.

To avoid fiscal meltdown, public pensions and health-care provision will have to be reined back beverly and taxs may have to go up.

To avoid fiscal meltdown, public pensions and health-care provision will have to be reined back severly and taxs may have to go up.

These five apparently demanded huge cuts in public pensions and red tape, and a spending cap for future years.

What is more, public pensions are often protected by a state's constitution, as in Illinois.

Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind.

In other states, however, the politics of public pensions appear to be changing.

European government' efforts to raise minimum retirement ages and reduce public pensions will continue.

Not only were public pensions systems becoming unaffordable in Asia, they were also inadequate for most pensioners , it said.

Voters gave that party no credit for helping create conditions for economic growth, the reform of public pensions and the like.

Fixing California will require cutting the excessive public pensions that unions have negotiated since 1999.

When public pensions were introduced in the 1960s there were 11 workers for every pensioner.

The backlash against ever more lavish public pensions hasbegun, and it won't be pretty.