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Illinois Pension Crisis: A Minute With U. of I. Expert Jeffrey R. Brown

In an interview with News Bureau business and law editor Phil Ciciora, finance professor Jeffrey R. Brown, who’s also the director of the Center for Business and Public Policy in the College of Business and was a senior economist with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2001-2002, discusses Illinois’ pension predicament.



 

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January 29, 2013

 

 


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Chained CPI and the ups and downs of the cost of living

In an opinion piece in the Washington Post, Professor Jeffrey Brown voices his, "concerns about the adequacy of Social Security benefits for seniors at the low end of the income distribution."
(April 17,2013):   [Details]

Six simple steps to pension reform

Professors Jeffrey Brown and Avijit Ghosh outline their pension reform plan in this editorial in Crain's Chicago Business.
(April 9,2013):   [Details]

Six Simple Steps to Reforming the State Universities Retirement System (SURS)

A group of scholars, which includes three faculty members from the College of Business, has developed a six-step proposal to stabilize pensions for employees of the state’s public colleges and universities.
(March 13,2013):   [Details]

  
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