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AlteNet / By Lynn Stuart Parramore

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Bombshell: Plutocrats Brazenly Collude to Hurt State Economies and Screw Working People

Illinois fatcats discuss plan to sabotage state bond ratings in scheme to destroy pensions.

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It’s time for the trustees of the pension funds to stand up for those whose interests they are charged with protecting, and not shrug off one more crime against the public interest that reduces pensions for working people.

Lynn Parramore is an AlterNet senior editor. She is cofounder of Recessionwire, founding editor of New Deal 2.0, and author of 'Reading the Sphinx: Ancient Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture.' She received her Ph.d in English and Cultural Theory from NYU, where she has taught essay writing and semiotics. She is the Director of AlterNet's New Economic Dialogue Project. Follow her on Twitter @LynnParramore.

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