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Rates of Pay and Pension Debt Escalating in California’s Distressed Cities

April 29, 2020 2:29 amApril 29, 2020 10:02 am

Nobody needs reminding that California’s cities, like every other going concern in America, are heading for tough economic times. As recently as two months ago, robust collections of sales taxes, utility taxes, transient occupancy taxes, property taxes and other sources...

Post-Coronapocalypse Pension Reform Checklist for California

April 1, 2020 2:10 amApril 2, 2020 6:21 am

Pensions for state and local government employees in California are literally three to five times as costly as Social Security, and at least twice as costly as the Federal Retirement System. In a perfect world, California’s state and local...

Is California’s Fi$cal Health Cause for Worry?

September 30, 2019 10:10 amSeptember 30, 2019 10:37 am

While California’s elected politicians are waging a legal and media war on the Trump administration, has the state’s economic status improved under Trump’s economic policies, or are California’s high taxes and restrictive regulations still chilling the economy? The state unemployment...