{"id":70247,"date":"2018-04-16T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70247"},"modified":"2018-04-16T07:38:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T11:38:21","slug":"nyt-a-76000-monthly-pension-why-states-and-cities-are-short-on-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70247","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) A $76,000 Monthly Pension: Why States and Cities Are Short on Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A public university president in Oregon gives new meaning to the idea of a pensioner.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Robertson, an eye surgeon who retired as head of the Oregon Health &#038; Science University last fall, receives the state\u2019s largest government pension.<\/p>\n<p>It is $76,111.<\/p>\n<p>Per month.<\/p>\n<p>That is considerably more than the average Oregon family earns in a year.<\/p>\n<p>Oregon \u2014 like many other states and cities, including New Jersey, Kentucky and Connecticut \u2014 is caught in a fiscal squeeze of its own making. I<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/14\/business\/pension-finance-oregon.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#39;That is considerably more than the average <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Oregon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Oregon<\/a> family earns in a year.Oregon-like many other states and cities, including NJ, Kentucky+ Conntct-is caught in a fiscal squeeze of its own making&#39; 2\/2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dbs9fcRFk2\">https:\/\/t.co\/Dbs9fcRFk2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/economy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#economy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/pensioncrisis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#pensioncrisis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/localgovt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#localgovt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/stategovt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#stategovt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ethics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ethics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Kendall Harmon (@KendallHarmon6) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KendallHarmon6\/status\/985476721964208133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A public university president in Oregon gives new meaning to the idea of a pensioner. Joseph Robertson, an eye surgeon who retired as head of the Oregon Health &#038; Science University last fall, receives the state\u2019s largest government pension. It<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=70247\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[615,168,597,662,619,587],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-government","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-pensions","category-state-government","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70250,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70247\/revisions\/70250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}