Pension articles to read are below this set of videos.
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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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