Why The Dot-Com Bubble Is Key To Understanding California’s Growing Public Employee Pension Debt
In summary
To figure out how California got in this situation, it’s helpful to rewind the clock to the late 1990s, back to the days of the dot-com bubble. That’s when the state and local governments chose to make pension benefits a lot more generous. It’s a decision that turned out to have lasting implications.
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