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National pension committee coming to Columbus

JULY 11, 2018 | by Jessica Wehrman | DAYTON DAILY NEWS (OHIO)

 “… The same urgency will also drive other retirees to Columbus for a planned Thursday rally and a Friday field hearing of a bipartisan joint Congressional committee tasked with solving a pension crisis that has put at risk the pensions of about 1.5 million retirees and active workers. … Walden, one of six scheduled to testify at Friday’s hearing, said the only solution likely to pass would be one with 'shared responsibility' – a solution that would involve pensioners giving up some of their pensions and employers as well as taxpayers also kicking in. 'Nobody is going to be 100 percent happy on this,' he said.”

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