Recent calculations have put the total level of states’ unfunded pension debt at more than $2.5 trillion.

Over the weekend, the Peoria Journal Star published a letter to the editor from an elementary school principal in downstate Illinois.

See what they're saying about the No Pension Bailout project.

Will a few important swing states like Ohio and Colorado put pressure on the candidates to bail them out of their pension debt?

Concern over underfunding of both public and corporate pension plans has Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, his party and other conservatives making a pre-emptive strike against the idea of federal government bailouts.

Illinois Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn is getting hit with a nationwide backlash over his suggestion that the federal government bail out the state employees

A new report by the Joint Economic Committee, or JEC, provides even more evidence that the federal government should never bail out state pension debt. Here are just a few of their findings.

The Illinois Policy Institute launched

Bailout of state pensions would force taxpayers in prudent states to pay for fiscal irresponsibility of Illinois, California

U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), the Senate