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Football commentator Chris Karma joined Jeremy Vine in the studio this morning to discuss his Christmas album, but it was his outrage for the WASPI scandal that got the biggest reaction as he claimed women have had their pensions “taken away from them”. Viewers called Kamara a great advocate for women after he expressed his […]
“WE CAN’T SAVE Brazil by killing old people,” says Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s next president. He is referring to the country’s main public-policy problem: a bill for pensions that eats up more than half of the federal budget and is growing at a rate four percentage points above inflation. He is not the only person in […]
Whether he reins it in will shape his presidency—and Brazil’s future
Tyler Evert/AP Public teachers all around the US have started strikes. Pensions have been an issue in all of them. This is among many issues resulting from an aging population in the US. There’s been a wave of public school teacher strikes around the US. It started in West Virginia and spread to Kentucky, Oklahoma, Arizona, and […]
SCHOOLS in Pennsylvania ought to be celebrating. The state gave them a $ 125m budget increase for 2017-18—enough for plenty of extra books and equipment. But John Callahan of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association says all the increase and more will be eaten up by pension costs, which will rise by $ 164m this year. […]
BHS, which was at the heart of a pensions scandal in 2016, is back. British Home Stores, which went into liquidation just before Christmas in 2016, has launched online in the UK. A representative for the store told Express.co.uk: “We are online only in the UK, but still have our franchise stores overseas. “At present […]
Published time: 22 May, 2017 20:05 Edited time: 22 May, 2017 20:11 Puerto Rico’s bankruptcy process has spread to the territory’s pension system and highway authority, bringing the amount involved to over $ 120 billion and far exceeding the previous municipal bankruptcy record. The Employees Retirement System (ERS) and the Highways and Transportation Authority (HTA) […]
For decades, being a coal miner has come with a deal: Work in dangerous, unpleasant conditions for years, and in exchange, get lifelong health-care benefits and a decent pension. Now, though, part of that deal is jeopardy, as the funds that provide those benefits have dwindled. When Congress returns next week, legislators will be under […]
