Rhode Island’s almost $10 billion state pension fund is in better shape than it was in 2011. That was when then-Treasurer Gina Raimondo spearheaded a plan to overhaul the pension. Raimondo said she wanted to shore up the under-funded pension, so the money would be there to pay future retirees. But public-employee unions sharply opposed […]

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