US - The budgets of many US cities are being pressured by growing pension fund contributions at a time when other rising costs were also competing for city resources, a study by Standard & Poor's Rating Services has found.
Cities in the US have seen their mean funded ratio drop from nearly 100% in 2000 to 84%, the report on the pension and debt statistics of the 20 largest cities rated by S&P found. With the final...
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