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							<title><![CDATA[The Other Debt Bomb in Public-Employee Benefits]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Public-pension funds have garnered attention in recent years for being underfunded, but a more precarious situation has received much less notice: health-care obligations for public retirees. Unlike pension plans, governments are not required to contribute to separate trusts to support...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hits and Misses On Money Market Reforms]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pozen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Many U.S. regulators view money market funds as a key source of systemic risk because of what happened to the Primary Reserve Fund during the 2008 financial crisis. When that Fund's holdings in the commercial paper of Lehman Brothers went south, the Fund "broke the buck"&mdash;leading...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 529 College Savings Plan Needs an Update]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[In this economy, a college education is more important than ever: The unemployment rate for college graduates is 3.8 percent, compared to 7.8 percent for everyone else. Yet, the exploding costs of education are causing some students to graduate with heavy debt burdens.
The federal...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Making the 'Public Option' a Simple One]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Pozen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WHEN THE Senate Finance Committee voted down the &#194;&#147;public option&#194;&#146;&#194;&#146; for health care reform last week, the ideological and economic strands of this debate were fused. For certain politicians, the main objective behind the public option is to move toward nationalized health care. For...]]></description>
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