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By John Hanna |
May 16, 2012
The compromise includes a plan to use casino revenues to bolster the long-term financial health of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System, which has a projected $8.3 billion shortfall.
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By Kathy Barks Hoffman |
May 15, 2012
Increases to taxes on individual retirement income are expected to total $1.4 billion, while business tax cuts will total about $1.9 billion.
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By John Hanna |
May 15, 2012
Kansas may dedicate revenues from state-owned casinos to pensions for teachers and government workers as part of a broader bill bolstering the long-term financial health of the state's retirement system.
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By Jenny Ivy |
May 14, 2012
Democratic House members from New York and California are pushing a bill that would mandate special privileges to women who wish to remain in the workplace and maintain a healthy pregnancy.
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By Peter Jackson |
May 11, 2012
Corbett defended his austere approach to running the state government and said the state must conserve its revenue to pay for the ever-spiraling bill for public employee pensions.
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By Peter Jackson |
May 10, 2012
Corbett said the state must conserve its revenue to pay for the ever-spiraling bill for public employee pensions.
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By The Associated Press |
April 26, 2012
The Oklahoma House has defeated workers' compensation legislation that would have allowed large employers to opt-out of the state's workers' compensation system.
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By John O'Connor |
April 13, 2012
A top Democrat seeks to amend the state constitution to make it more difficult for legislators to boost public employee pensions in the future, given their huge debts.
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April 10, 2012
More than 30,000 government workers will go without pay raises and some 200,000 retirees won't get cost-of-living increases in their monthly pension checks.
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By Charles Babington |
March 28, 2012
The Supreme Court's much-anticipated ruling on health care, expected in late June, may have one surprising outcome: a modest impact on President Barack Obama's re-election bid, even though he is intimately associated with the challenged law.
