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Is the US Headed for a Pension Crisis?

September 26, 2017 by PETITION in News

So, this was depressing. Basically, if you live in a big city with a wildly underfunded pension - and a lot of you do (looking at you New York, Los Angeles and Seattle) - well, you're screwed. Oaktree Capital Management is focused on this $2 trillion "underfundedness" issue (video).