Sentences with phrase «local pension problems»

Learn how tax reform, state and local pension problems, rising interest rates and new government regulations are affecting the municipal bond market outlook.

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Too often, local governments apply a bandage to problems that require more far - reaching solutions — including those involving pensions, bonds and labor issues, among others.

He said, Zamfara workers were faced with a number of problems which include failure to pay the salaries of 1,400 recruited by the government more than two years ago, non payment of backlog of pension and gratuities, non payment of minimum wage to primary school teachers and local government employees as well as non payment of annual salary increment.

«Local and state financial problems are accelerating, in large part because public entities promised pensions they couldn't afford.

While the NJEA often blames the state's pension problems on politicians, the union bears significant responsibility for the crisis — in part because of the disconnect between the state, which funds teachers» pensions, and local school districts, which actually employ teachers and pay their salaries.