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R.I.’s needed pension cuts pass legal test
From Athens to Rome to Providence, Rhode Island, the painful truth about pensions is the same: Unfunded liabilities need to be reformed, and unions don’t like it. more
Providence breaks $700,000 pension link joining nationwide insolvency fight
Providence lawmakers - facing a $1 billion deficit and squeezed for cash - reformed pensions, ending automatic raises and capping annual payouts and joining a national insolvency fight over pensions. more
Rhode Island pension reformer may win battle, lose war
Rhode Island General Treasurer Gina M. Raimondo has experienced a meteoric rise to fame that most politicians can only envy. more
House Finance Committee approves $8.1B 2013 budget
The House Finance Committee unveiled and then approved an $8.1 billion fiscal 2013 state budget late Thursday night, which scraps controversial meals, hotel and sales tax expansions more
Report: R.I.’s pensions, retiree benefits cause for ‘serious concern’
According to the Pew Center report - “The Widening Gap Update” – Rhode Island’s management of its long-term liabilities for pensions and retiree health care were cause for “serious concern.” more
| 5/19/12
Public sector workers digging in to save pensions under assault
Leaders of the largest U.S. union of public-sector workers are vowing to fight efforts by state and local governments to balance their budgets with cuts to employee benefits even as voters have sided with that strategy. more
Brown to benefit from $127M bond sale
Brown University will use a $127.4 million bond sale to renovate downtown property after agreeing in May to almost double annual payments to the city. more
Warwick reaches agreement with Fire, Police
The city of Warwick has reached new, three-year contracts with the city’s fire and police unions, Mayor Scott Avedisian announced Monday. more
| 7/3/12
Warwick City Council approves union contracts
Monday evening, the Warwick City Council unanimously approved three contracts with the city’s municipal employee, police and firefighters’ unions. more
Judge rules Providence pension settlement fair
Superior Court Associate Justice Sarah Taft-Carter has issued a ruling that Providence’s pension settlement is “fair, reasonable and adequate,” according to a statement released today by Providence Mayor Angel Taveras. more
| 3/11/13
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