October 31, 2018
It’s that time of year again — when the temperature is cooling off and the leaves are falling — when we must once again enter that most frightening of places: the Haunted House of Pension Horrors. Full of frightening characters …
October 1, 2018
John Arnold and his cronies are the most well-known opponents of public pensions. John Arnold funds the work of the Pew Research Center, the Retirement Security Initiative, the Reason Foundation, and other groups who are attempting to eliminate public pensions. …
August 28, 2018
Over the years, we’ve detailed the many different ways in which John Arnold attacks public pensions nationwide. He has used more than $50 million of his personal fortune to support anti-pension groups like the Retirement Security Initiative; to promote biased …
July 25, 2018
Since the Great Recession in 2008, warnings of an impending pension crisis have been splashed across the business pages of newspapers across the country. Despite these boisterous decrees, America’s public pension funds are stable. We explore the roots behind the …
July 9, 2018
In June, Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) reintroduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act (PEPTA). Rep. Nunes has introduced this legislation for the past four Congresses. PEPTA would require state and local public pension plans to disclose their unfunded liabilities to …
June 26, 2018
Earlier this year, we exposed John Arnold’s “web of connections.” This is the wide variety of groups he funds to attack public pensions. Many of these groups are connected to each other and many of them cite each other’s work …
