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October 17, 2011

Rep. Cecil Brown – Public employees also taxpayers

Public employees also taxpayers In his column in the Oct. 9 Hattiesburg American, Gov. Haley Barbour focused his anger at criticism of his Public Employees’ Retirement System study commission on “Democrats and some in the news media.” He accused his critics of “fear-mongering” and an attempt to “scare” public employees “into voting Democrat during the…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
October 17, 2011

No review for special legislative pension

No review for special legislative pension State lawmakers’ special pension is unlikely to be addressed in a study commission’s report next month on funding changes to the Public Employees Retirement System despite Gov. Haley Barbour saying recently that it, too, could be reviewed. Mississippi legislators altered the pension system in 1989, giving themselves a second…