News Articles and Videos about Pensions

Pension articles to read are below this set of videos. 

Click on the Youtube playlist below on the left to see your choices of many videos to watch on pensions.


Detroit

2015  

Supreme Court of Illinois opinion that pensions ARE protected by the constitution. May 8, 2015
http://www.illinoiscourts.gov/Opinions/SupremeCourt/2015/118585.pdf

Detroit Long Term Debt Rises 300% in Bankruptcy; Retirees Fight Back with Protest, Court Appeals
http://voiceofdetroit.net/2015/03/02/detroit-long-term-debt-rises-300-in-bankruptcy-retirees-fight-back-with-protest-court-appeals/


To see the original court documents from the bankruptcy hearings, visit http://www.kccllc.net/detroit/document/list/3666

Retirees Carry on the Battle for Detroit - Appealing Bankruptcy to Higher Court
http://voiceofdetroit.net/2015/02/03/retirees-carry-on-the-battle-for-detroit-appealing-bankruptcy-to-higher-court/ 

DETROIT WORKERS, RETIREES FILING BRIEFS IN 8 APPEALS OF CITY’S BANKRUPTCY PLAN
http://voiceofdetroit.net/2015/01/23/detroit-workers-retirees-filing-briefs-in-8-appeals-of-citys-bankruptcy-plan/ 



2014

DETROIT BANKRUPTCY PLAN: GENOCIDE IN USA’S LARGEST BLACK-MAJORITY CITY; RICH GET 95.9%, POOR GET 13.5%
http://voiceofdetroit.net/2014/11/15/detroit-bankruptcy-plan-genocide-in-usas-largest-black-majority-city-rich-get-95-9-poor-get-13-5/

Bankruptcy costs Detroit retirees  
http://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/bankruptcy-costs-detroit-retirees/Content?oid=2264682

Cities Are Eliminating the Healthcare Benefits Once Promised to Retirees
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/10/cities-are-eliminating-the-healthcare-benefits-once-promised-to-retirees/381375/?single_page=true

THE PLOT AGAINST PENSIONS: PEW/ARNOLD FOUNDATION, ALEC SUPPORT BANKSTERS’ ATTACK
http://voiceofdetroit.net/2014/03/17/the-plot-against-pensions-pewarnold-foundation-alec-support-banksters-attack/

Objections from pensioners
http://mayorjean.blogspot.com/2014/09/detroit-pensioners-speak-out.html


Who is who in the Grand Bargain and Detroit http://www.mayorjean.blogspot.com/2014/12/who-is-who-in-detroit.html 

2013

The Detroit Bankruptcy Executive Summary
http://www.demos.org/publication/detroit-bankruptcy 

The Detroit Bankruptcy Full Report by: Wallace C. Turbeville, Senior Fellow
http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/Detroit_Bankruptcy-Demos.pdf

Looting the Pension Funds http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-the-pension-funds-20130926

On March 24 Governor Snyder and Kevyn Orr, Emergency Manager, went to speak at the Manhattan Institute about Detroit's bankruptcy. http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140324/METRO01/303240067

The Manhattan Institute has worked with the John Arnold Foundation to implement pension reform which is highly questionable. Jones Day suggested that a person from the Manhattan Institute lead the bankruptcy experts in the trial in Detroit http://www.freep.com/article/20140331/NEWS01/303310064/Detroit-bankruptcy-expert-witness-Edward-Glaeser

Why Detroit Needs Bankruptcy - from the Manhattan Institute
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/miarticle.htm?id=9853#.U0SZiqJEwuY

Detroit is pension reform's whipping boy Commentary: Clawbacks on earned benefits is the equivalent of a poll tax - Wall Street Journal Marketwatch
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/detroit-is-pension-reforms-whipping-boy-2013-09-24


Nationwide

ALEC and TIAA-CREF Join the Assault on Public Pensions
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19556-alec-and-tiaa-cref-join-the-assault-on-public-pensions

New Reports Reveal Depth of Corporate Collusion in Pension Attacks - the Public Pension Institute http://www.publicpensioninstitute.org/public/10450.cfm

Rhode Island (first one down, the experiment)


Looting the Pension Funds - Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/looting-the-pension-funds-20130926

Rhode Island's Pension Pirates
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/rhode-islands-pension-pirates-2013-10-24

Rhode Island Public Pension Reform: Wall Street's License to Steal - Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/edwardsiedle/2013/10/18/rhode-island-public-pension-reform-wall-streets-license-to-steal/

Rhode Island Drops Hedge Fund Criticized by Unionized Teachers
http://www.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/content/20140130-r.i.-state-investment-commission-drops-hedge-fund-criticized-by-unionized-teachers.ece

Report: Pew and Arnold Working Together to Slash Pensions - Rhode Island Future
http://www.rifuture.org/report-pew-arnold-working-together-to-slash-pensions.html

And this one is right from the John Arnold Foundation. Read it to see how THEY do business. This one shares info from the John Arnold Foundation - Pension Reform: Litigate, Negotiate or Go Bankrupt http://blogs.reuters.com/muniland/2013/01/11/pension-reform-litigate-negotiate-or-go-bankrupt/

Jacksonville

Jacksonville Buyers Beware: Pew Partners with the Arnold Foundation to Bring a Crippling Plan for Public Pensions to Jacksonville - the National Public Pension Coalition
http://www.truthaboutpensions.org/media/releases/jacksonville-buyers-beware-pew-partners-with-the-arnold-foundation-to-bring-a-crippling-plan-for-public-pensions-to-jacksonville

California

Promise Breakers: How Pew Trust Is Helping to Gut Public Employee Pensions - California
Federation http://www.calaborfed.org/index.php/site/page /promise_breakers_how_pew_trust_is_helping_to_gut_public_employee_pensions
 

Slash and Burn: California Pension War
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/03/california-pension-war_n_3862157.html

Kentucky

Arnold Foundation Mess Has Gray In A Tizzy - Page One Kentucky
http://pageonekentucky.com/2014/02/21/arnold-foundation-mess-has-gray-in-a-tizzy/



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