2013年养老金40：Pat Quinn

伊利诺伊州拥有一个不尽1亿美元的责任，大约40％，大约40％，在美国拥有最糟糕的国家养老金制度。固定收入市场已注意到：6月份，两名主要评级机构降级伊利诺伊州债券。民主州长帕特奎因has been fighting to get pension reform through the state legislature almost from the day he took the job, in early 2009. “The taxpayers are paying $5 million a day more in pension liability,” says Quinn, 64, who’s running for reelection next year. The governor thought he had a deal this spring, when the Illinois Senate, led by powerful president John Cullerton, approved reform legislation, but a similar bill failed to pass the Illinois House of Representatives. To force a solution during the current legislative session, former tax lawyer Quinn vetoed lawmakers’ pay and threatened to hold fast until a pension bill hit his desk. But Cullerton and house speaker Michael Madigan overturned the veto through the courts; the governor, who’s appealing that ruling, now must rely on the ten-person legislative committee he’s established to hammer out a pension reform deal. “I’m not going to sign anything that’s piecemeal or incomplete,” Quinn says. The committee’s current plan, backed by Cullerton, aims to save about $138 billion over the next 30 years through measures that include shrinking the compounded cost-of-living allowance from 3 percent annually to half of the Consumer Price Index.