Sentences with phrase «pension burden»

- The largest pension burdens are also associated with states that directly cover the cost of local school teacher pensions.

It's ironic that the private sector pension funds are meant to «relieve» the State of its supposed pensions burden when in reality private pensions are usually so meagre that the State has to prop them up with Income Support as a last resort to get them up to the poverty line.

Chicago Public Schools faces a $ 1.1 billion deficit, plus a «crushing pension burden» to go along with it.

The Teachers Union With a Math Problem While the NEA's pension burden swells, the educators focus on getting Arne Duncan fired and fighting fracking.

The very notion of teachers shouldering more pension burden has the Chicago Teachers Union talking strike.

«Easing the pension burden will afford local businesses the ability to invest in expansion, new business development and innovation, which benefits everyone.»

Sitting recently with a local County official she was told that the county she represented need to contribute an additional $ 24 million as their share of the pension burden.

It's that kind of fiscal robbing Peter (the taxpayer) to pay Paul (special interests) that got NYC into fiscal difficulties in the 1970s and has driven up the pension burden for every county and locality (including NYC) in this state.

One local union seeking a raise during contract negotiations downplayed the district's pension burden and argued there was actually enough money in reserves to cover the higher pay it wanted.

Similarly, New York is currently engaged in a controversial smoothing or «amortization» program to lessen the pension burden on hard - pressed municipalities by letting them defer some pension debt by up to 10 - to - 12 years.