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The economic turmoil in the early months of the pandemic – a plunging stock market and soaring unemployment – posed a real threat to state and local government pension funds and the workers who rely on them. One group was particularly vulnerable: public-sector workers who aren’t covered by Social Security and lack the backstop of…
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Will Accounting Changes Lead to Change in Behavior? In an effort to increase the visibility of pension commitments, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement 68 beginning in 2015: 1) moved pension funding information from the footnotes of financial statements to the balance sheets of employers; and 2) required employers that participate in so-called “cost-sharing”…