Background Documents Provided or Requested By Commission Members re: Pension and OPEB Issues
1. The Trillion Dollar Gap: Underfunded State Retirement Systems and the Roads to Reform, The Pew Center on the States, February 2010
2. The Crisis in State and Local Government Retiree Health Benefit Plans: Myths and Realities, Center for State and Local Excellence, November 2009
3. The $2 Trillion Hole, Baron's March 19, 2010
4. Final Report of The Special Commission to Study the Massachusetts Contributory Retirement Systems, Submitted October 7, 2009
5. An Options Pricing Method for Calculating the Market Price of Public Sector Pension Liabilities, American Enterprise Institute, February 26, 2010
6. How Progressive is the U.S. Federal Tax System? Historical and International Perspective, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2007
7. Other Post-Employment Benefits-Moody's Special Comment, July 2005
8. Prefunding OPEB in State and Local Governments: Options and Early Evidence, Center for State and local Government Excellence, September 2009
9. Managing DB Pension Plans in Stressful Times, Althea A. Schwartz Powerpoint Presentation, March 26, 2010
10. State Debt Woes Grow Too Big To Camouflage, New York Times, March 26, 2010
12. The Pension/OPEB Funding Puzzle, by Greg Stump, April 9, 2010
a.) Why the Federal Government Should Worry About State Pension Liabilities
by Joshua D. Rauh
14. FUNDING PENSIONS & RETIREE HEALTH CARE FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES,
A report of the Pubilc Employee Post Employment Commission of California
A report of the Pubilc Employee Post Employment Commission of California
16. LINK: In Budget Crisis, States Take Aim at Pension Costs, By Mary Williams Walsh, NYT
17. New England State Pension Reform - VT Published: June 19, 2010
25. DB Pensions: The Real Deal (Journal of Pension Benefits)
26. Minimizing Retiree Health-Care Benefits: Can Medical Trusts be the Answer to the Shrinking Retiree Health-Care Benefit? (Governing, August 2010)
27. LINK: Privatization Leaves Billions in the Lurch
http://globalgeopolitics.net/wordpress/2010/08/16/privatization-leaves-billions-in-the-lurch/
http://globalgeopolitics.net/wordpress/2010/08/16/privatization-leaves-billions-in-the-lurch/