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| ('denverpost.com/2017/10/13/no-more-band-aids-peras-problems-demand-substantive-reform/', 5)        | Therefore , >>>the PERA board has proposed a series of fixes<<< to help the funding ratio , and return to fully funded status within 30 years .                                                                                                                                                                          |
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| ('denverpost.com/2017/10/25/gop-businessman-brian-watson-joins-race-colorado-state-treasurer/', 10) | On the >>>state employee pension fund<<< — likely to be one of the biggest issues in the race — Watson said Colorado " must manage these assets better , " though he stopped short of outlining specific policy proposals in his announcement .                                                                          |
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| ('denverpost.com/2017/10/31/colorado-treasurer-candidate-dave-young/', 8)                           | The treasurer also has a seat on the board that oversees the state pension fund — a matter of >>>growing financial concern<<< for retirees , current employees and taxpayers alike .                                                                                                                                     |
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| ('denverpost.com/2017/11/01/colorado-budget-pera-fix/', 14)                                         | Rejecting the >>>Colorado Public Employees ' Retirement Association 's plan<<< to increase government contributions to shore up the fund would save the state $ 54 million a year , according to PERA projections .                                                                                                      |
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| ('denverpost.com/2017/11/01/colorado-budget-pera-fix/', 21)                                         | Henry Sobanet , the governor 's budget director , on Wednesday said the governor 's office would be open to >>>automatic taxpayer contribution increases<<< down the road if this round of reforms proves insufficient .                                                                                                 |
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| ('denverpost.com/2017/11/13/pera-looms-large-governors-budget/', 2)                                 | But the elephant in the room on Monday , when state lawmakers had their first wide-ranging public discussion of Gov. John Hickenlooper 's $ 28.7 billion budget plan , was what to do about the state pension fund 's >>>increasingly alarming unfunded liability<<< .                                                   |
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| ('denverpost.com/2017/11/24/colorado-pera-analysis-public-workers/', 0)                             | Decades of overpromising and underfunding benefits have dug Colorado 's public pension system into a deep financial hole , and a new analysis of competing proposals to fix it shows that younger generations would be left to pick up most of the >>>$ 32 billion tab<<< .                                              |
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| ('denverpost.com/2017/11/24/colorado-pera-analysis-public-workers/', 1)                             | The latest financial breakdown undercuts public statements made by advocates of each proposal to shore up the >>>Public Employees ' Retirement Association<<< and underscores the difficulty of finding an equitable solution for past and future generations of public workers without asking taxpayers for a bailout . |
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| ('denverpost.com/2017/12/01/colorado-cant-weather-a-recession/', 29)                                | Next year , lawmakers can expect to add the >>>state 's badly underfunded pension<<< to the list of outsized needs competing for limited dollars .                                                                                                                                                                       |
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| ('denverpost.com/2017/12/06/pera-fix-proposal-retiree-cost-of-living-raises/', 0)                   | Colorado Treasurer Walker Stapleton on Wednesday said pension benefits should be frozen and cost-of-living raises for public sector retirees eliminated until the state retirement system digs itself out of >>>its deep financial hole<<< .                                                                             |
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| ('denverpost.com/2017/12/13/pera-executive-director-greg-smith-dies-56/', 0)                        | Greg Smith , the executive director of the >>>Colorado Public Employees ' Retirement Association<<< , died Tuesday night while on vacation in Hawaii with his family , the state pension system announced .                                                                                                              |
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| ('denverpost.com/2017/12/15/governors-race-fundraiser-pera-concerns/', 3)                           | And with Colorado again >>>struggling with how to deal with its pension system<<< , known as the Public Employees ' Retirement Association , or PERA , Johnston 's ties to Arnold are raising eyebrows with a previous ally .                                                                                            |
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| ('denverpost.com/2017/12/19/charles-scheibe-joins-treasurers-race/', 13)                            | PERA 's board of directors recently approved a reform package that asks lawmakers to cut retirement benefits and boost contribution from employees and taxpayers to shore up a >>>$ 32 billion shortfall<<< .                                                                                                            |
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| ('denverpost.com/2018/01/07/2018-legislative-session-colorado/', 3)                                 | On two of the most consequential and difficult issues — >>>overhauling of the state pension fund<<< and improving the state 's roads — neither side sees eye to eye on solutions , let alone whether it 's a priority .                                                                                                  |
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| ('denverpost.com/2018/01/09/top-8-issues-in-2018-legislative-session-colorado/', 4)                 | Eight years after lawmakers pulled the state pension system back from the financial brink , the Public Employees ' Retirement Association >>>faces another watershed moment<<< .                                                                                                                                         |
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| ('denverpost.com/2018/01/10/colorado-2018-legislative-session-begins/', 37)                         | >>>On pension reform<<< , she said she was committed to strengthening the Public Employees ' Retirement Association 's balance sheet .                                                                                                                                                                                   |
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| ('denverpost.com/2018/01/10/colorado-senate-president-opening-day-speech/', 7)                      | Grantham also urged fixes to the state 's embattled Public Employees ' Retirement Association ( >>>another area of partisan disagreement<<< ) and for solutions to the state 's opioid crisis .                                                                                                                          |
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| ('denverpost.com/2018/02/11/pera-funding-crisis/', 7)                                               | Its funding gap has ballooned to >>>$ 32.2 billion<<< by one accounting measure — and $ 50.8 billion by another .                                                                                                                                                                                                        |
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