Sentences with phrase «public employee pension spending»

It got so bad for the unions that the one Republican they backed — Allen Fung for governor of Rhode Island — lost to Democrat Gina Raimondo who, as treasurer, worked to rein in out - of - control public employee pension spending.

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South Carolina state government salary South Carolina Salaries Total state spending: $ 21.4 billion (2014 estimate) South Carolina Budget and Finances South Carolina Public Pensions More Information: Other State Salaries Public Employee Salaries Public Pensions...

Cohen supports the Business Council's Enough Already NY campaign's Five to Survive economic reform agenda which includes: a property tax cap; a state spending cap; reducing the tax burden; reforming public employee pensions and limiting government borrowing.

The resulting Committee to Save New York rapidly became the state's biggest single lobbyist, raising and spending at least $ 15 million and running TV and radio ads that backed Cuomo's (ultimately successful) proposals for capping local property taxes and reducing the cost of public - employee pensions.

After holding it for four months, the state Senate has just sent Governor Andrew Cuomo a bill that would add hundreds of millions of dollars * to state and local pension costs by allowing public employees to claim pension service credit for time spent in peacetime military duty.

Calling it an «oppressive unfunded mandate» that would impose $ 57 million in «near term obligations» on local governments across New York State, Governor Cuomo has vetoed a bill that would have allowed public employees to claim up to three years worth of pension service credit for time spent in military duty.