“Detroit declared bankruptcy due in no small part to $3 billion in unfunded public employee pensions as a result of a massive city workforce that kept growing even as the city’s population shriveled, but a Washington Examiner analysis found that 19 major American cities have even bigger ratios of such workers to residents. Here’s the report from WE showing the number of residents per municipal employee.”
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/07/the-nightmare-ahead-19-us-cities-have.html
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