EDITORIAL: Government agencies splurge on overpriced health insurance
A new study has just documented that government agencies in
The analysis by Transparent California looked at 672,000 payroll records from 1,500 different government agencies across the state. On average, state and local governments in
The
The worst offender on the list was the
But not any more.
Days after the study was released, the East
Transparent California Executive Director
They shouldn't be happy. Rising pension and benefit costs are chewing up a growing share of the budget in every local government in the state, driving the demand for more and more tax increases.
It's long past time for state and local governments to start working for the people who pay them, and not for the people who work for them.
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