R.I. behind on funding post-employment benefits, but better than rest of region

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s “other post-employment benefit liabilities,” which typically consist of retiree health plans, are only 16.5 percent funded, according to S&P Global Ratings Tuesday, which noted that Rhode Island is hardly alone in such a predicament. The report found that of states with OPEB liabilities, only six states had OPEB liability funding greater…