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• OPERS Doubling Down on Defined Benefits - As the saying goes, you’ve got to know when to hold’em and when to fold’em. Evidently, OPERS is going all in on its bet to supposedly save Ohio’s largest pension fund with minor tweaks alone to the defined-benefit system. It’s … Continue reading → January 25, 2012 11:10am
• The Medicaid Monster and ObamaCare - While it seeming not as controversial as things like public worker compensation reform and right to work, Medicaid is a hugely important issue. To put Medicaid’s cost into quick perspective, it now accounts for somewhere around 30 percent of the … Continue reading → January 23, 2012 11:48am
• An Example of the Need for Pension Reform - The Buckeye Institute’s recent Hanging by a Thread report highlights the woeful unfunded liabilities encountered by our five state pension funds, to the tune of $66 billion. This is a real problem and the problem is the system itself. There … Continue reading → January 16, 2012 1:15pm
• The Grand Shift- Ohio’s Economy Must Look Forward, Not Back - It goes without saying that Ohio has suffered a great deal over the last two decades. During the “boom years” of the 1990s, it grew at a slower rate than the national average and it declined further than almost any … Continue reading → January 12, 2012 1:56pm
• School District Starts Dealing With Real Issues - We did not notice this interesting nugget of news regarding the Benton-Carroll-Salem school district until our attention was brought to it thanks to an e-mail question. However, this is very interesting. A school district actually opened up its collective bargaining … Continue reading → January 10, 2012 1:58pm

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