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The chairman of an Ohio House panel has scheduled a string of hearings next month on the fiscal health of the state's five public retirement funds.

Frustrated conservatives in Kansas are turning against the moderate members of their own party, disappointed the state has not adopted a 401(k)-style plan for teachers.

Fearing further disruption with the Big Apple's power system, Gov. Andrew Cuomo intervened in a Con Ed labor dispute based on pensions and health care.

The long-held expectations of financial returns as seen in a decade ago are beginning to paralyze the nation's largest public pension plans, and their future.

Senate Democrats pushed through Wednesday legislation that would phase out the so-called Bush-era tax cuts except for families earning $250,000 or less at the end of this year.

User fees provide the simplest, most efficient solution to the problem of inadequate advisor oversight, the California Democrat says.