Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, unveiled two proposals Friday to address what he calls “disappearing pensions.”

This study is a solemn reminder that state politicians’ efforts to enact pension-slashing legislation are a cause for serious concern for millions of middle-class Americans planning to retire in the coming years.

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A campaign is being waged by pension fund critics to push the Legislature to quickly enact “reform” measures.

Rates of poverty among older households lacking pension income were approximately nine times greater than the rates among older households with DB pension income in 2010, up from six times greater in 2006 a new study calculates.

From reading the voluminous accounts of the fiscal woes of Stockton and San Bernardino, you’d think that municipal unions and feckless city officials are primarily what led these cities down the path to fiscal ruin.

In the past decade the number of California workers with access to a retirement plan at work has plummeted.