The median funding ratio for state-sponsored pension plans was71.5 percent in 2014, virtually unchanged from the previous year,according to Fitch Ratings.
While several years of strong stock market gains have helped tooffset pension liabilities, funding levels remain well belowpre-recession levels, in part because fewer government workers arebeing hired as more retire, meaning fewer lives available to payinto plans, according to Fitch.
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