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Regional Spotlight: Pension Gap Perils

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Pennsylvania and New Jersey?s pension systems are severely straining their state budgets, and Delaware?s also carry shortfalls Are the significant shortfalls in tristate public pension funds actually far worse than official reports suggest?

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  • Elif Sen, 2016. "Regional Spotlight: Pension Gap Perils," Economic Insights, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, vol. 1(2), pages 15-19, April.
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