"Public pensions are proven economic engines, generating $1.2 trillion in economic output in 2016 and supporting 7.5 million jobs.... In Kentucky, [a] state with a long history of underfunding public pension plans, the state actually gives away more each year through tax expenditures than it collects in tax revenue. [The] annual cost of funding pensions in Kentucky is only two-thirds of the cost of those corporate giveaways."  MORE >>