US - Public sector pension funds face a US$731bn funding gap over the next 30 years as the cost of pension promises, health care obligations and other related benefits have not been met by sufficient levels of saving at state level.
According to a report by the Pew Charitable Trusts, a US research body, the total cost of providing benefits to public sector workers in the US' 50 states will exceed $2.73trn over the next three d...
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