Little Hoover is Coming
On the left, you see Herbert Hoover as a young child. Relevance? It is reported in today’s Sacramento Bee that the state’s Little Hoover Commission will be issuing a report on public pensions in California.
The State Worker: New debate looms on public pensions
Feb. 24, 2011, Jon Ortiz
Get ready for a new round of debate over public pensions that could shape California’s intensifying budget talks and even wind up putting some sort of rollback on the legislative agenda. The bipartisan Little Hoover Commission plans to release a report today on California’s public pensions, complete with suggested changes.
…The commission’s pension recommendations have been tightly held secrets that will be tweaked almost to the moment they’re published online this afternoon. But Republicans expect it will prescribe some tough medicine that will affirm their push for cutting the state’s employer pension costs…
Full story at http://www.sacbee.com/2011/02/24/3426150/the-state-worker-new-debate-looms.html
Stay tuned for further developments. And in the meantime:
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