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  • Rhode Island Pension Cuts Set Chilling Precedents
    Brian Chidester
    Apr 19 2012 - 5:03pm

    If you thought retiring would help you avoid the ruination of living standards brought on by the economic crisis, Rhode Island’s pension overhaul just proved you wrong. Pension cuts are hurting every worker—current, retired, and future.

  • Financial Crisis Shouldered by City Workers

    Paul Abowd

    Last summer’s meeting of the National Conference of Mayors foresaw grim days for American cities — and that was before finance markets folded up in the fall. Now urban governments confront budget deficits that stem from falling tax revenues and the ongoing credit crunch. . . .


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  • D.C. Teachers Resist District’s ‘Slash-and-Burn’ Style

    Candi Peterson

    Unable to cajole or buy support from the Washington Teachers Union, D.C. schools chief Michelle Rhee now says her version of education reform can be done with teachers — or to them. Contract talks screeched to a halt this fall when teachers indicated they would vote down a privately funded plan. . . .


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