PORTLAND — The actuaries for Oregon’s public pension have released the most up-to-date valuation of the retirement system, a good news/bad news report that will play out statewide in 2019,…
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KLCC Funding the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) has been a challenging topic for many years. The current estimated shortfall between expected revenue and anticipated pension payments is 25…
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The Register-Guard Philadelphia-based telecommunications giant Comcast and its customers have turned into the goose that laid the golden egg for the city of Eugene and some other governments. Two years…
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PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) Portland voters could see a measure on their ballots this November calling to boost big business taxes. If passed, the funds would help pay for renewable energy…
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Governments across the state are wrestling with a largely hidden fiscal crisis. It threatens to rob current and future generations of quality public services and weaken Oregon’s economic resilience. How…
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Cascade Business News – Steve Buckstein What do Pac-Man and public pensions have in common? An intriguing 2016 national study of pension debt and teacher salaries recently answered this question.…
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Various topics: Nationally corporations are now taxed a small fraction of what they once were. Oregon has nearly the overall lowest rates in the country (49 out of 50) …19…
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By Ted Sickinger The Oregonian/OregonLive Seven months before legislators convene at the Capitol, lawmakers, business groups and the governor are crisscrossing the state to discuss the state budget, education funding,…
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Local governments and school districts have vastly different approaches to dealing with public pension debts. The large hole in Oregon’s PERS unfunded liabilities, roughly $22 billion, is a well-documented drain…
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Ted Sickinger – The Oregonian/OregonLive The Oregon Treasury is calling off – for now – an effort to give public employees a choice in how a portion of their retirement savings…
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