Editorial: Pension numbers just keep getting worse – Champaign News-Gazette*

"Analysts at Wirepoints, a website whose interests include state finances, write that 'healthy funds have ratios that ranged from 25 to 40 years worth of assets.' If there’s any good news here — there’s really not — it’s that the state’s official underfunding estimate is a mere $144 billion, a number that’s certain to increase."