Eric Fruits on Oregon public pensions
The Lund Report – ICLE Chief Economist Eric Fruits was cited by The Lund Report in a story about Oregon’s public-employee pensions crisis. You can read the full piece here.
“No one wants to talk about the biggest problem facing Oregon. It’s not the pandemic. It’s not homelessness. It’s not racial justice. The biggest crisis facing Oregon is its public employee retirement system, or PERS,” asserted Eric Fruits, vice president of research at the Cascade Policy Institute, in a June opinion piece that ran in many news outlets.