Lawmakers in the Mississippi Senate passed a bill that would put a large chunk of cash into the Public Employees’ Retirement ...

State Senator Daniel Sparks explained on the floor that the PERS unfunded liability is about $26 billion, $6 billion of which ...

The legislation would transfer $500 million from the Capital Expense Fund to the PERS account as of July 1, and would direct ...

On Wednesday, the Mississippi State Senate passed funding for the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS), along with ...

The Mississippi State Senate has passed substantial funding for the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS) along with ...

When Toby Barker, mayor of Hattiesburg and president of the Mississippi Municipal League, came to Jackson Wednesday with a group of mayors, he wanted to voice his hope to work with the Legislature on ...

Both the state House and Senate are back in session in Jackson. Hugh Keeton had a chance to sit down with Lieutenant Governor ...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - The state Public Employees Retirement System has reported a more than threefold increase in the number of retirements in December 2009 compared with the past three Decembers - a ...