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February 13, 2012

Support retirement security for Alaskans

Are pensions the equivalent of buggy whips and 8-track cassettes; have they become obsolete? No but we strayed from fundamentals and now we need to return. Plans that stuck to fundamentals are on solid footing today. They provide the example …

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January 30, 2012

Worker-favored pension plan makes progress

Alaska’s public employees could be getting nearer to having the option for a traditional pension plan, instead of the 401(k)-style plan new employees were controversially forced into starting in 2006.

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January 12, 2012

Killing Pensions to Benefit the 1 Percent

Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, the Pravda of the 1 percent, is at it again, continuing its push to gut the retirement security of millions of middle class workers across the country while enriching the Wall Street moneymen who just …

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