Restoring Local Control of State-Governed Pension Plans

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James Quintero

James Quintero is the policy director for the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Government for the People campaign. Since joining the Foundation in 2008, Quintero has focused extensively on: state & local government spending, taxes, debt, public pension reform, annexation, and local regulations.

Local control is a style of governing often espoused by local elected officials in Texas. Ironically, it is also a policy preference that is conspicuously absent from many major municipal retirement systems.

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