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发帖数: 6339 | 1 November 27, 2013 (WLS) -- A pension deal for the state of Illinois was
announced by GOP leaders Christine Radogno and Jim Durkin Wednesday.
A spokesman for House Speaker Michael Madigan also confirmed that
legislative leaders have reached a deal to solve the state's $100 billion
pension crisis.
Steve Brown says he was told of the agreement following a leaders' meeting
Wednesday. Brown says the speaker's staff is putting together an "
explanatory memo" for lawmakers and will send details of the proposed
legislation to them Friday.
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: November 27, 2013 (WLS) -- A pension deal for the state of Illinois was
: announced by GOP leaders Christine Radogno and Jim Durkin Wednesday.
: A spokesman for House Speaker Michael Madigan also confirmed that
: legislative leaders have reached a deal to solve the state's $100 billion
: pension crisis.
: Steve Brown says he was told of the agreement following a leaders' meeting
: Wednesday. Brown says the speaker's staff is putting together an "
: explanatory memo" for lawmakers and will send details of the proposed
: legislation to them Friday.
: ......
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tax payers and public workers 个让一步
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CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) -
The latest battle over Illinois pension reform is expected to come to a head
on Tuesday in Springfield. Governor Quinn and legislative leaders are
pushing hard for a "yes" vote. Meanwhile, opponents have been working to
drum up opposition, including having retirees flood lawmakers offices before
the vote. The outcome is still up in the air.
State Senator Daniel Biss, from Chicago's North Shore, is one of ten
legislators appointed last June to a special committee to come up with a
bill to solve the pension crisis. On the day before Thanksgiving, House and
Senate leaders came up with their own plan, which they hope will pass on
Tuesday.
"The pieces that have been described to me so far...it seems to me we're
heading in an encouraging direction," said Biss, a Democrat.
The proposal aims to save 160 billion dollars over the next three decades,
in order to get underfunded pensions up to where they're fully funded. The
plan would reduce the annual three percent compounding cost of living
increases, giving employees one-to-five lesser COLA bumps every year.
It would require the state to contribute payments of a billion dollars a
year after 2020, and it would raise retirement ages. For every year that a
pensioner is under the age of 46, the retirement age would be increased by
four months, up to 5 years.
"It saves a substantial amount of money, but it does it in a careful way
that protects people who are in greatest need. It really protects the lowest
wage workers, but then simultaneously it puts us on an actuarial funding
path so that over time we're going to get out of this hole and not get back
into it," said Biss.
Opponents, though, hope to torpedo the plan. Union leaders say it's an
unconstitutional limit on retirement promises made to public employees like
teachers and firefighters. They say the cost of living cuts will make
retirement impossible. Fiscal conservatives like the Illinois Policy
Institute say it doesn't go far enough.
"This bill is a lot of smoke and mirrors. It talks a lot about COLAs and
retirement ages. When you strip it all down it only reduces the pension
shortfall: the 100 billion shortfall to about 80 billion max, and so
therefore it's not enough savings. This is not a good deal for the state,
and it will continue to keep Illinois mired in the crisis," said Ted
Dabrowski of the Illinois Policy Institute.
Illinois' pension shortfall is considered the worst in the country. One
union leader says Tuesday's outcome will turn on the votes of 8 to 10
members of the Senate, and 15 to 17 swing votes in the House.
Read more: http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/24107531/illinois-pension-vote-nears#ixzz2mLLHdEEB
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