Pensions
Labor Department moves forward on new retirement program
August 30, 2016Social Security was never meant to be the sole source of income and is threatening to become that; we're trying to help senior citizens in the face of consistent Republican opposition.
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New Jersey public pensions battle goes down to the wire
August 5, 2016The pension battle began several years ago when Christie claimed the state not only wouldn't pay its part of the pensions, but couldn't afford to do so.
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U.S. Supreme Court upholds N.J. Gov. Christie’s worker pension cuts
March 3, 2016Now, the future of public workers' pensions in New Jersey may well be up to the Garden State's voters.
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Teamsters and others fight pension battle over multi-employer fund
February 3, 2016Teamsters are one of the unions under the knife now, but 200 multi-employer pension funds covering 1.5 million American workers could be in jeopardy for a number of reasons.
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Portugal: Socialist government takes power with Left support
November 24, 2015Antonio Luis Santos da Costa of the Socialist Party, forms a government with the support of the Communist, Ecologist (Green) and Left Bloc deputies in the national parliament.
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