Our Next Big Debt Bomb
A new study notes that they on average cities have higher unfunded liabilities for health care promises made to retirees than for pensions and have set aside very little to pay for the future health care promises they have made to workers. That amounts to a fiscal tidal wave. The problem, as the chart suggests, lies in the grey areas of the two pie charts...
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