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The secret sauce behind bloated state pensions
No state does pension abuse like New Jersey, and no state is facing financial ruin sooner than the Garden State. The state’s unfunded pension debt per capita is the largest in the nation, and its pension fund is on target to be the first to run dry, in 2018. Full story
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