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Raise tax rates a bit and Social Security might be fully funded for three quarters of a century to come. Finding the political will to do so, a harder job.

State employees' retirement age would raise by two years and they would be required to pay more into their pensions, as part of a reform package

MetLife may be on the hook for as much as $700 million in unpaid life and annuity policies; other insurers are expected to follow.

Despite more money from a recent income tax increase, less federal aid and increased pension costs are dogging the state government.

Lawyers for American Airlines and its labor unions argued in federal bankruptcy court over the best course for the financially troubled company.

Federal regulators say the former CEO of a massive California employee pension fund conspired with a friend of his to trick a prominent investment firm into paying $20 million in fees to the friend's firms.