From the comments piling up on Bridge’s stories about school-employee pension reform, both here and at Mlive, where Bridge shares content, you’d think…well, you’d think a lot of things. For a topic that involves actuarial tables and lots of numbers, it gets blood boiling like few others. But if there’s one takeaway I hope every […]
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Educators see violation of trust in pension proposal
When Kathy Kapera started working as a Michigan teacher in 1976, she made about $7,000 a year. Over the course of her career — most of it spent teaching hearing-impaired children in Royal Oak — she earned a master’s degree, and steadily accumulated seniority and experience that all led to the moment in 2010 when […]
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Land O Links
“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason” — Immanuel Kant, 18th century German philosopher. * Foreign Policy has an analysis of five trends that threaten recovery in advanced economies around the world, including our own. One of the five is […]