How in the world might a transportation bill feed our retirement crisis? Congress is sneaking a harmful pension change that could lead to massive underfunding of our largest plans

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The 2005 Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) annual report shows that its liabilities are $23 billion greater than its assets. With bad luck, experts believe that this could grow to $100 billion and a taxpayer bail...

The auto companies' defined-benefit pension plans are fundamentally unsound and may be bigger than the auto companies can pay, but are managed by government and involuntarily guaranteed by taxpayers.

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In August 2006, President George W. Bush signed the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (PPA), legislation intended to improve the funding of defined-benefit pension plans, improve the measurement of assets and liabilities, and require plan sponsors to face stricter...

The PBGC should have greater flexibility to charge higher premiums to firms generating more risk to the system.

Large deficits faced by the PBGC are a political challenge that Washington will be forced to fix.

The Bush administration should insist that corporations fully fund their plans quickly with assets that can be and are revalued at least quarterly at market prices.

What are we to make of the problems of pension finance?