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07.22.2009 9:00 pm

The retirement crisis: Illinois points the way.

Kurt Granberg, poster boy for retirement planning. (Post-Dispatch file photo)

Kurt Granberg, poster boy for retirement planning. (Post-Dispatch file photo)

During his 22 years in the Illinois legislature, Kurt Granberg became something of an expert on the state’s severe underfunding of its five public pension funds. “People didn’t pay attention,” he told…

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11.19.2008 9:01 pm

Protecting pensions is good for G.M., and the country

Once, what was good for General Motors was good for the United States. This week, the chief executive of General Motors — along with his counterparts at Ford and Chrysler — tried to convince Congress that the saying still holds…

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10.06.2008 11:30 pm

MINK column: At risk in America — You’re the one carrying the load.

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

"High Wire," by Peter GosselinYou know that vague, shapeless worry that never quite goes away? That sense that the things you count on for your security and that of your family — your spouse, your children, your brothers, sisters and parents — aren’t quite solid?

It…

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