Cutting PERS

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Mon, 06/10/2019 - 9:00am to 10:00am
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Mark Brenner on the recent vote by OR legislators

 

Denise Morris talks with Mark Brenner about the recent vote to cut PERS benefits. Mark Brenner is the former Director of Labor Notes now currently working at University of Oregon’s Labor Education & Research Center. On May 27th Mark Brenner spoke to Bill Resnick about the manufactured PERS crisis and the larger real crisis of pensions, with most Americans having little more than Social Security when they retire. 

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