Is it OK to have a thread like this here? just asking because I run across stories that people at DU should read but a lot of times they're never posted there.
I ran across this story, searched at DU and it's not there, and since it comes from the source that's the Bible for the left it's important for them to read.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/opinion/06sun1.htmlEditorial
State Workers and N.Y.’s Fiscal Crisis
Published: March 5, 2011
At a time when public school students are being forced into ever more crowded classrooms, and poor families will lose state medical benefits, New York State is paying 10 times more for state employees’ pensions than it did just a decade ago.
That huge increase is largely because of Albany’s outsized generosity to the state’s powerful employees’ unions in the early years of the last decade, made worse when the recession pushed down pension fund earnings, forcing the state to make up the difference.
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