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Comprehensive study of 50 states ranks Oklahoma among the worst in ...
Today (Monday, June 27), the Institute for Truth in Accounting (IFTA) announces completion of a significant, comprehensive study of all ...
Okla. lawmakers require pension COLAs to be funded
OKLAHOMA CITY -- A legislative plan to shore up Oklahoma's underfunded pension systems by requiring any cost-of-living increases to be f...
Pensions for Pols: The retirement benefits of 16 Oklahomans
This year the Oklahoma Legislature is considering a range of proposals to reform – or, as some observers put it, save from financial col...
Changes in Moody’s Credit Scores Could Cost Oklahoma Dearly
Moody’s Investors Service recently made a major change in how it will calculate a state’s credit rating. Oklahoma policymakers should ta...
Senate pension panel tackles $16 billion unfunded pension liability
Senator Mike Mazzei said he was encouraged by Thursday’s meeting of the Senate Select Committee on Pensions, the first for the panel. M...
What the heck took them so long?
Moody’s Investors Service “finally recognizes that unfunded pension liabilities are a threat to the financial well-being of states,” OCP...
What a Tax Hike Would Do to Oklahoma's Economy
Personal income is an important economic measure of a state’s well-being. Higher levels of personal income mean that a state’s residents...
Defusing Oklahoma's pension bomb
[This Marlin Oil advertorial appears in the Nov. 4 issue of The City Sentinel.] Other than government spending, especially the...
How to Defuse Oklahoma's Pension Bomb
Last month in these pages (“The Coming Explosion of Oklahoma’s Pension Bomb”), I outlined the significant problems in Oklahoma’s two lar...
New Studies Spotlight Oklahoma's 'Number One Financial Threat'
When I joined the state capitol press corps last fall, I never would have suspected that coverage of pensions and retirement plans would...
