…The Chicago metro area’s unemployment rate, 6.2%, is the highest of any big city in the country… Boeing and Citadel have fled. …The city budget has a $538 million hole, and there’s a $51 billion pension debt that siphons off municipal revenue. Chicago has a boat-mooring tax, ...
We improved social security and social services. A central regulation system for basic old-age insurance funds was set up. We increased basic pension benefits for retirees for many years running and raised the minimum basic old-age benefits for rural and non-working urban residents. Urban and ru...
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The amount that exceeds such maximum is withdrawn in order to pay foreign public debt or cover part of the Pension Funds’ deficit. A minimum level of zero is implicitly being considered. In this paper, we study the optimal interventions of a government to manage its stabilization fund. The ...
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(see figure 1). A marriage, for instance, can involve not just a marriage license but also a change of address, a new legal name, and changing eligibility for government benefits such as health insurance subsidies. The number of required transactions can be daunting—and providing the same ...
Pension benefits were paid on time and in full, and provincial-level collection and payout of enterprise workers' old-age insurance funds was realized. Better public cultural services were provided. Primary-level governance in urban and rural areas was enhanced. Solid steps were taken to address ...
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French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered his prime minister to use a special constitutional power that skirts parliament to force through highly unpopular pension system changes.
local governments are incentivized to participate in national policy piloting as a mean to promote local change and address local problems (Ettelt et al.2022). By conducting policy “experiments in accordance with local conditions”, they can enhance local governance, while simultaneously providing the...