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City Club of Eugene: PERS Snatchers

Recorded On: July 13, 2018

Air Date: July 16, 2018

Funding the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) has been a challenging topic for many years. The current estimated shortfall between expected revenue and anticipated pension payments is 25 Billion dollars. That raises a lot of questions.How did we get here? What has been done within legal requirements to reduce that gap and how will the State and local governments cover the difference? What will it take to resolve the issue?

We hear the perspectives of two experts on PERS: Bill Gary, lead counsel for Oregon Local Governments and expert on the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System and Melissa Unger, Executive Director of the state chapter of Service Employees International Union (SEIU 503).

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Love Cross joined KLCC in 2017. She began her public radio career as a graduate student, serving as Morning Edition Host for Boise State Public Radio in the late 1990s. She earned her undergraduate degree in Rhetoric and Communication from University of California at Davis, and her Master’s Degree from Boise State University. In addition to her work in public radio, Love teaches college-level courses in Communication and Public Speaking.