It’s Not Too Late….
The World Happiness Report provides data and research used around the world to help shape and inform policy. Among its findings: giving to others is good for you. It makes you feel happy.1-8 Since 1992, ....
Category: PERA
Candidates traveled different paths to Treasurer’s office race
Candidates traveled different paths to Treasurer’s office race August 29, 2018 By Sherrie Peif As a member of the Joint Budget Committee for the past four years, retired math teacher and term-limited State Representative Dave Young has ....
TABOR, Colorado education funding and the teacher protests (for Dummies)
EDUCATION TABOR, Colorado education funding and the teacher protests (for Dummies) If there's one thing teachers hate, it's Cliffnotes, but here's a "Cliffnotes"-style explainer of the education funding shortfalls Colorado teachers are protesting. Author: Allison Sylte ....
Lawmakers Are Close To A New State Budget. Here’s Where Money Is And Isn’t Going
Colorado lawmakers have all but signed off on the biggest budget in state history. The $28.9 billion spending plan invests taxpayer dollars in roads, schools and the state’s troubled pension fund. Unlike in previous years, ....
Strong conservatives wary of weakening TABOR for “Better Colorado”
Some key TABOR supporters weren't included in the coalition By Joey Bunch The Denver Post Douglas Bruce in April 2015. (Denver Post file) Some of the state's strongest conservative defenders of the Taxpayer's Bill of ....
Upcoming problems that we can expect for TABOR from the problems of PERA
PERA and TABOR Collision Course
As session wraps up, major work remains for Colorado lawmakers
Colorado lawmakers begin a mad dash to the finish next week with more than a dozen significant bills in limbo and the session's clock set to expire. The final flurry before the May 6 adjournment ....
Report: Colorado’s public worker pension fund not “fiscally sound”
UPDATED: 12/01/2012 12:08:53 AM MST By Tim Hoover The Denver Post The Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association is one of 21 state pension funds that are not "fiscally sound," according to a national investment research ....
GUEST COLUMN: Unfunded liabilities in PERA’s health plan accumulate
May 03, 2012 7:31 PM BARRY POULSON and PENN PFIFFNER GUEST COLUMNISTS This legislative session Colorado HB1250 was introduced to begin addressing an unfunded billion-dollar liability in the Public Employee Retirement Association’s (PERA) retiree health ....