There are a number of things that states and municipal governments can do to help get their retirement costs under control without dialing back their current employees' benefits.
By threatening to withhold mass transit funds, Washington is preventing California from realizing savings from its pension reforms. It isn't the first time special interest legislation has stood in the way of cheaper government.
Merit-based hiring systems in government are more than a century old, and some of them make managing the public workforce absurdly difficult and complicated. They need to be updated for the modern era.
Massachusetts is about to tie much of its community-college funding to measures of how well the schools educate their students. The state's bold plan is part of a welcome trend.
Residency requirements for municipal workers make it harder to recruit the best and the brightest, but a statewide ban like Wisconsin's may not be the best way to end them.
California Department of Technology Starts July 1
Stephen Goldsmith
Charles Chieppo
John M. Kamensky
Neil Kleiman
Robert J. O'Neill Jr.
Feather O'Connor Houstoun
Susan K. Urahn
John M. Bernard
Babak Armajani
William D. Eggers
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