Editorial: California's Supreme Court takes cautious steps on public employee pensions
by The Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Mar 06, 2019
3 minutes
Faced with rising obligations to current and retired public employees, the state of California and many local governments are pouring an increasing share of their tax dollars into pensions. Yet they still face a mountain of unfunded liabilities. The pension systems estimate that they are underfunded by $331 billion, according to the California Pension Tracker project at Stanford University, while many argue that the amount is several times higher.
The enormous shortfall helped persuade the state Legislature to pass public employee pension reform legislation proposed
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