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America’s $2 Trillion Public Pension Crisis

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The ultimate nightmare of the public pension crisis would be governments suddenly stop paying pensions. Under that scenario some retirees would go from a comfortable retirement with a boat and a second house on the lake to sleeping on their children’s couch.