Page 43 - State Workers News Today

Been beat too much, until he spends half of his life just covering up. springsteen gave us the world, born in the usa, and also the streets of philadelphia. springsteen has been calling for new jersey to legalize marriage equality for years now. and when the legislature finally voted to do that, christie vetoed it and said the state should hold a referendum instead. last year christie stripped union rights and cut the benefits of state workers, and last week, governor christie cut tax credits fo...

Beat too much. springsteen gave us "born in the usa" and "streets of philadelphia." a story about a man dying of aids. springsteen has been calling for fj new jersey to pass marriage quality. . last year, christie stripped union rights and cut the benefits of state workers and the working poor along with aid to schools, cities and health care. bruce springsteen is not the guy whos impressed with a guy that berates, students, teachers, supporters in town halls. using your power to stand up to the...

State and, suddenly, this is all taken care of within the state. suddenly hiring out of state workers and young people who dont know what theyre talking about. when we follow the trail of the story, we came back and looked for howard richs offices and rang his bell, you know, for about an hour. no answer. he didnt have to respond. he didnt want to talk to us and this is what was happening in 2006. >> you know, the two head scratching things for most average people in citizens united. money speec...

Norms matter and theres been a shift in norms that has changed behavior of the accentric billionaire class. but having the protection, even if its paper thin protection of some organization that is running the ads, as opposed, which doesnt seem to us to make that big of a difference because everyone is still reporting on sheldon addleson, but it does make a big difference in the court of cost benefits. >> maybe with their $10 million, this is an interesting character. freedom loving americans fo...

Compensation. in new jersey, what they allow you to do is actually retire -- is actually in new jersey, once you earn enough credit as a legislator to get your pension, you can get your pension, stay in the legislature and still get your legislative salary. >> were looking at an example of that right now. senator frank madden jr. who is able to do that and still continue to work taking home a total of, you can see it right there on the screen $241,000 a year. not bad if you can get it. >> yeah. ...

$80,000 pension because he used a multiplier of 4%. but steve, when you look at, for instance, just a state employee, it is half that number. well move that graphic here in just a second. ok. look at that. 80,000 for the legislature and only about $43,000 for the average state worker. >> right. same amount of time spent, same final salary but they -- the formulas are very complex. thats one of the problems that we have with the system. people who dont understand what the real costs are so they g...

The plan would start in 2014. >> and outrage over this mall sign in new jersey. it reads "we apologize for the whistling construction workers but man, you look good." some womens advocates not amused by the sign. either am i and want it removed. outrageous. im outraged! >> $757 billion. thats how much states are falling short on their pension funds according to a new pew study that finds that many are failing to maintain safe levels of funding. so what is the problem? >> stuart varney is -- your...

With all this money that they need which they do not have? by the way, in illinois, they have $0.05 on the dollar for all the health care commitments theyve made in the future. thats all theyve got. >> the amazing thing about these numbers is you say on one side people say if you made these promises when people, you know, signed up to work in these jobs, you have to honor them but if you look at the payout that -- and thats a valid point but when you look at the payout that theyre making for the...

Governor romney was clear he would veto the dream act. clear not just for the hispanic community but for the american people at large. >> chris: the president gave an economic speech in ohio in which he called for targeted investments in energy and education and state workers, first responders and teachers and tax hikes for the wealthy but there was forgive me nothing new. is that the presidents agenda for the next four years, pass the jobs plan that i have been pushing for over the last 12 mont...

Would veto the dream act. clear not just for the hispanic community but for the american people at large. >> chris: the president gave an economic speech in ohio in which he called for targeted investments in energy and education and state workers, first responders and teachers and tax hikes for the wealthy but there was forgive me nothing new. is that the presidents agenda for the next four years, pass the jobs plan that i have been pushing for over the last 12 months, and that will fix the eco...