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by Nicholas Huba of the Atlantic City Press
With the New Jersey pension system possibly heading for insolvency, a state commission has suggested that towns and counties help bridge the growing funding gap.
Local officials, who say they made their state-mandated contribution to the pension system while the state ignored its payments, don’t want anything to do with that recommendation.
“Money was squandered,” said Gerald M. Thornton, director of the Cape May County Board of Chosen Freeholders. “We can’t allow these pensions plans to be merged. We have followed the rules and made the contribut...
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