Pension python squeezing Kentucky’s economy
Reporter John Cheves covers the state’s retirement systems’ crisis in Tuesday’s Lexington Herald-Leader, citing inadequate funding, weak investment returns and “unrealistic assumptions” regarding...
View ArticleBluegrass Beacon: Giving unaffordable pension benefits an economically fatal...
Like Bernie Sanders refuses to acknowledge socialism’s devastating impact on previously prosperous Venezuela, supporters of Kentucky’s pension status quo – who seem largely illiterate about how...
View ArticleBluegrass Institute responds to proposed pension plan
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 Contact: Jim Waters @ 859.444.5630 (FRANKFORT, Ky.) – Bluegrass Institute president and CEO Jim Waters issued the following statement regarding the...
View ArticleBluegrass Institute News Release – Pension Shock: How did we get here?
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Contact: Jim Waters @ 270.320.4376 (cell) or jwaters@freedomkentucky.com (FRANKFORT, Ky.) — With the Kentucky Supreme Court agreeing to a fast-track...
View ArticleDems’ quasi-pension proposals offer same failed approach
(FRANKFORT, Ky.) – The Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions, Kentucky’s first and only free market think tank, issued the following response to proposals offered by state Democratic leaders...
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