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Rhode Island pension funding deficit jumps 27% on lower returns

Economic Activity 04/14/2011

BOSTON - Rhode Island’s unfunded public pension liabilities for teachers and most state workers jumped about 27 percent after the board overseeing the retirement...

MASSACHUSETTS Gov. Deval Patrick proposed a $30.5 billion budget for fiscal 2012 that count on changing municipal health-care plans and the state pension system to help offset cuts to local aid. /

Massachusetts governor pushes cuts in spending plan

Entrepreneurship 01/27/2011

Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick proposed a $30.5 billion budget for fiscal 2012 that counts on changing municipal health care plans and the state...

New England leads U.S. in ‘precarious’ recovery, group says

Economic Activity 11/19/2010

BOSTON - New England’s six states are leading the U.S. in a “slow and precarious” economic recovery threatened by deep cuts to government spending,...

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ADVOCATES for bus riders will be keeping close tabs on the person the R.I. Public Transit Authority hires to lead the agency now that Scott Avedisian has resigned. / PBN FILE PHOTO/ MICHAEL SALERNO

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