While there are pockets of success, state plans last year had 75 percent of what they needed to meet retirement obligations.

The added disclosure could foster competition by helping investors understand what they are being charged by their brokers.

Nationwide, state revenue growth in the years first three months rose less than 1 percent from a year earlier, forcing reconsideration -- or abandonment -- of pledges of tax relief.

Governor Peter Shumlin today is to sign a law requiring lenders to be licensed by the state and comply with interest limits and other banking regulations.

Like everyone else who dines at a restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska, Buffett is charged a 2.5 percent tax thats used in part to defray $850 million in unfunded retirement expenses for city workers.

Poverty in the state has trailed the U.S. level for at least seven years.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called on fellow U.S. city leaders to tackle a nationwide inequality crisis with policies such as paid sick days and universal pre- kindergarten.