The Scranton Times takes an insightful look at municipal pension problems in a recent series that included interviews with PEL Executive Director Gerald Cross.
Click on the links below to read the series:
Newspaper’s investigation finds municipal pension plans underfunded
Moosic taxpayers haunted by 2007 decision to double pension benefits
Clarks Summit police chief earns more $113G between his salary and Carbondale pension
Carbondale boosts pension perks to get three cops to retire
Program lets public employees work while amassing additional retirement nest egg
Newton Twp. police chief boosts pension amid lax oversight
Scranton’s pension plans on fast road to ruin
Experts mixed on borrowing to shore up pension funds
