The US Environmental Protection Agency has been criticized by environmentalists as being too business-friendly, but recent statements from the agency on climate change suggest it's warming up to environmentalist views. The US Climate Change Science Program, a government agency, also seems to feel to speak its mind.
Pew is also as balanced as you'll get on global warming, although at the end of the day they lean more left than right.
With airlines going into the red and steel companies struggling to survive, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp (PBGC) has picked up a large load of pension payments over the past few years - and so fallen into deep deficits of its own. In 2006 Congress passed a bill to close PBGC's funding gap by forcing companies to follow stricter funding rules and pay higher premiums into the federal back-up fund.
With baby boomers teetering on retirement and companies straining to pay their pensioners, America is bracing to see how we'll keep our retirees afloat without sinking the rest of us. See citizenJoe's issue guide on Social Security and brief on private pensions for the two issues being bandied in Congress. Here we offer the retiree lay of the land…
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