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The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is on track to see a record number of resignations and retirements this year.

Italian retirees could be forced to present their coronavirus health pass in order to access their pensions in person.

Spanish populist party VOX is being investigated over a campaign poster that compares monthly spending on migrant minors to monthly spending on Spanish pensioners.

Time and time again the “Bolivarian, Socialist, Anti-Imperialist, and Profoundly Chavista” Revolution has stylized itself as a champion of the elderly

The $1.9 trillion “COVID relief” bill proposed by President Joe Biden and approved by Democrats in Congress “will erase the majority of San Francisco’s projected $650 million budget deficit over the next two years,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Delphi workers who had their pensions slashed during the Obama-Biden administration’s auto bailout say Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden had seven years as vice president to represent their interests but chose not to.

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden is speaking up 11 years after 20,000 non-unionized Delphi workers had their earned pensions gutted via the Obama administration’s taxpayer-funded auto bailout of General Motors (GM).

More than ten years after about 20,000 Delphi Corporation workers had their pensions slashed as a result of the Obama-Biden administration’s auto bailout of General Motors (GM), President Trump is considering restoring the pensions. 

Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden said 20,000 non-unionized Delphi workers “did fine” after they had their earned pensions gutted via the Obama administration’s taxpayer-funded auto bailout of General Motors (GM) in 2009.

President Donald Trump has the authority to block state-administered pension funds from investing in Chinese companies, said Gordon Chang, author of The Great U.S.-China Tech War, offering his comments on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host John Hayward.

American union workers are warning against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) coronavirus relief package over worries that it will gut employees’ pension plans.

A Connecticut state employee union official rejected Republicans’ call to delay workers’ raises even as the state has 21.5% unemployed.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that the House is “setting up” to address pensions in the next coronavirus bill, and tied increased election funding so we can have an election with

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) declared that the Senate will not deal with pension reform in any subsequent coronavirus bills. McConnell reacted to a clip of House Speaker Nancy

The Spanish supreme court has granted two women, the widows of a Moroccan polygamist, the rights to widows’ pensions in a landmark ruling, claiming that polygamy does not prevent pension allocation.

In an escalation of protests against pension reforms by President Macron, union workers cut power to the world’s largest wholesale market.

Dozens of protesters blocked the entrance to the Louvre museum and forced the famous Paris landmark to close Friday while they denounced the French government’s plans to overhaul the pension system.

BRUSSELS (AP) – The European Union’s top court ruled Tuesday that a Polish law lowering the retirement age for judges and setting different ages depending on their gender violates EU law.

Rep. Andy Levin said that NPR is “obsessed” with the impeachment of President Donald Trump and should instead report on Congress.

According to figures on non-EU citizens, around 60 percent of “retired” migrants living in Italy have never worked.

French President Emmanuel Macron told a woman who was concerned about cuts to her pension that she should follow General Charles de Gaulle’s example and stop complaining.

A report finds that several “financially-strapped” Chicago pension funds invested $68 million in a “shaky” real estate deal brokered by a man associated with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and Barack Obama that ultimately resulted in a $54 million loss.

The State Council of Firefighters broke with tradition and endorsed Kansas Secretary of State and conservative populist Kris Kobach in the state’s gubernatorial race on Friday.

The non-partisan “Truth in Accounting” project, which analyzes government financial reports, has awarded California an “F” grade for claiming surpluses instead of a $269.9 billion deficit.

The European Union (EU) is expecting the UK to pay an extra £10 billion towards the so-called Brexit ‘divorce bill’ to cover the rapidly increasing cost of Eurocrats’ generous pensions.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is slashing pensions for retirees of government entities that elect to leave CalPERS without paying the hefty termination toll or “exit fee.”

LONDON (AP) — Britain accelerated plans to increase the pension age Wednesday, as rising life expectancy continues to put pressure on the public purse.

A vote by congressional Republicans last week ended California Gov. Jerry Brown’s effort to force 6.8 million private sector workers into a “Secure Choice” public-run retirement plan.

As the #CalExit movement continues to draw favorable press — mostly in liberal publications bitter over Trump’s victory — its downfall just might be found in the fiscal realities facing CalPERS, the agency responsible for managing pensions and benefits for over 2 million California state employees.

Brussels has insisted the UK taxpayer foots a bill of more than £5 billion for the pensions of 1,730 retired British European Union (EU) bureaucrats after it voted to leave the block.

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel persuaded the Illinois legislature to pass a law in 2014 changing city pension plans to increase employee contributions and to reduce benefits, but now the state’s Supreme Court has ruled the law unconstitutional and has thrown

Santa Barbara County, Kern County, Fresno County, San Mateo County and Ventura County now spend about 10 percent or more of their total revenue on pension contributions, according to a new study.

Texas first responder groups have come out in strong opposition to the gubernatorial appointment of Josh McGee to the Texas Pension Review Board.

In a radio interview airing on Sunday, former U.S. Comptroller General and chief of the Government Accountability Office Dave Walker asserted that America’s national debt is over three times the official figure, which dramatically understates the government’s financial commitments.

Los Angeles County Beach Lifeguards and other public employees will receive the equivalent of a 10 percent pay raise over the next two years, while retirees on Social Security will receive zero increases.

In a recent Los Angeles Times “Economy Hub” post on public-sector pensions, Michael Hiltzik took a shot at the California Policy Center for analyzing the average pensions of full-career Calpers retirees–those who work at least 30 years–in its pension analyses.

CalPERS, the Golden State’s public employee retirement system, is seeking to shift the cost and risk of pensions to taxpayers after a $5 billion shortfall in 2014.

The California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) has sold its investment in Remington Outdoor, the parent company for Bushmaster firearms–the firearm that Adam Lanza stole and used in his his heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary.

The most pressing budget issue that the State of Illinois faces is its spiraling public pension debt. The problem is proving difficult to fix, not necessarily because the legislature refuses to try to fix it — though they are doing darn little — but because the problem is ensconced in the state’s Constitution, causing the state Supreme Court to rule against any changes in the pensions.

The California Teachers’ Retirement Trust (CalSTRS) board directed its staff and consultants last week to evaluate the risks of investing in thermal coal companies.