WRR: Public Pensions vs. Public Education - a forced choice?

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Mon, 09/30/2013 - 12:00am
The Well-read Red looks at the PERS system in Oregon & the politics of defunding it "for the kids".
Frann Michel brings us the Well-read Red, this time focusing on pension-raiding under neoliberalism and the PERS system in Oregon, which Governor Kitzhaber has advocated cutting in order to make up for education cuts. In Frann's words: let's pit old people against young people. Frann explains how public pensions work, how they've been raided in the name of investment and the false crisis this creates. You can read the blogged version of it with links HERE

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