{"id":62124,"date":"2011-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/r-i-treasurer-uris-college-of-business-administration-to-work-together-on-pension-reform\/"},"modified":"2011-06-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T00:00:00","slug":"r-i-treasurer-uris-college-of-business-administration-to-work-together-on-pension-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2011\/06\/r-i-treasurer-uris-college-of-business-administration-to-work-together-on-pension-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I. Treasurer, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Business Administration to work together on pension reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. &#8211; July 17, 2011 &#8211; The Rhode Island General Treasurer is joining forces with the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Business Administration to help craft a comprehensive solution for state pension system reform. The state\u2019s pension crisis has been described as one of the worst in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nIn an effort to keep the community and all stakeholders involved during this process, a comment period and an advisory group have been launched as part of a new initiative called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treasury.ri.gov\/secure-path-ri\/\">Secure Path RI.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cRhode Islanders must take action and engage on this issue as much as possible, because this issue affects everyone,\u201d General Treasurer Gina Raimondo said when she announced the partnership June 15 with Governor Lincoln D. Chafee.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAs part of Secure Path RI, the College of Business Administration will help collect and organize ideas from constituents for pension system reform. Ideas for reform may be entered through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treasury.ri.gov\/secure-path-ri\/\">Secure Path RI website<\/a> or by mailing: Secure Path RI \u2013 Constituent Ideas, 溏心vlog免费B站, College of Business, 7 Lippitt Road, Kingston, R.I. 02881. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cProviding the public with an opportunity to weigh in on such a critical issue facing our state is a significant step in the process of addressing the public pension crisis,\u201d said Mark Higgins, dean of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Business Administration. \u201cWe are pleased, as the state\u2019s flagship University, to assist the General Treasurer with an important issue that impacts all Rhode Islanders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nHiggins is a member of the 12-person advisory committee that is charged with helping vet and organize a solution that will be submitted to the General Assembly in October. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nThe initiative comes on the heels of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s annual Vangermeersch Endowed Lecture in April, which attracted hundreds to the Kingston campus to understand how the state\u2019s pension woes affect every Rhode Islander.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. &#8211; July 17, 2011 &#8211; The Rhode Island General Treasurer is joining forces with the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s College of Business Administration to help craft a comprehensive solution for state pension system reform. The state\u2019s pension crisis has been described as one of the worst in the country. &#13; In an effort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}