Recent empirical evidence strongly suggests that, on average, combined wages and benefits for public sector workers now outstrip compensation for comparable private sector workers.The most obvious ...

Ohio’s Senate Bill 5, which increases the health and pension contributions of certain public‐sector workers and narrows the scope of collective bargaining, goes before voters in a statewide referendum ...

Abstract: Previous public–private pay comparisons at the state and local levels, including numerous reports published by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), significantly undercount public-sector ...

Defenders and opponents of public pensions live on two different planets. Nothing illustrates this more clearly than the ongoing debate about whether public employees are overpaid — especially when we ...

HARTFORD Gov. M. Jodi Rell wants to know more about the compensation packages for top officials at the state s quasi-public agencies. Rell this week asked Marc Ryan, secretary of the Office of Policy ...

Pensions -- except for one's own, of course -- seldom rank high on Americans' list of hot topics. But the Great Recession and the huge debt surrounding public employees' pensions have thrust this ...