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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Is Your Pension Safe? States Struggle With Pricey Challenges

Updated: June 22 2011,
Author: barrel jason
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Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budgeting, Business Cycles, Credit, Economic Institutions, Financial Investments, Financial Markets, Investing
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As part of his continuing coverage of Making Sen$e of financial news, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports from Rhode Island on the struggles that states are facing over how to calculate investment returns for public pension funds to keep them fully funded.