2011_Teacher Retirement and State Budget Archives – Knox County VillageSoup

2011_Teacher Retirement and State Budget

Published
March 17, 2011

Legislators hear from local educators

Area teachers asked how changes to their retirement and insurance plans would fix Maine's budget mess when they met with Sen. Chris Rector, R-Thomaston, Rep. Joan Welsh, D-Rockport, and Rep. Andrew O'Brien, D-Lincolnville, March 10 at Camden Hills Regional High School's Strom Auditorium. Camden Hills math teacher and Megunticook Teachers Association President John Fitzgerald moderated the meeting, which was ...
Published
March 9, 2011

Bruce Poliquin: Challenge to balance honoring benefits, not running out of money

Maine State Treasurer Bruce Poliquin warned Tuesday, March 8, that several “high-risk strategies” suggested as solutions to Maine’s $4.3 billion unfunded pension liability could make the problem worse. At a Statehouse news conference, Poliquin endorsed Gov. Paul LePage’s proposals to raise the retirement contributions of active teachers and state employees from 7.65 percent of salaries to 9.65 percent, while ...

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