32 pages. "The unfunded obligations of the pension systems sponsored by state and local governments in the United States continue to grow. [This] second annual report on the off-balance-sheet pension promises of state and local governments [studies] in detail 649 pension systems around the United States, including all of the main pension systems of the states, the largest U.S. cities, and the largest U.S. counties. [It reports] on both their own measurements of their costs and obligations, and how these differ from market valuations that are consistent with the principles of financial economics."  MORE >>