{"id":44790,"date":"2014-10-30T07:24:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T11:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=44790"},"modified":"2014-10-30T07:24:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T11:24:09","slug":"hedge-fund-billionaire-unions-trade-blows-in-phoenix-pension-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2014\/hedge-fund-billionaire-unions-trade-blows-in-phoenix-pension-fight.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund billionaire, unions trade blows in Phoenix pension fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A push to reform Phoenix&#8217;s retirement system has become the latest front in a battle between union-backed groups and a Texas hedge fund billionaire over the future of America&#8217;s public pensions.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of dollars, much of it anonymous out-of-state money, has been flowing to backers of a November 4 ballot initiative in Phoenix that aims to end traditional public pension plans for the city&#8217;s new hires.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/10\/30\/us-usa-elections-pensions-phoenix-analys-idUSKBN0IJ0A420141030\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A push to reform Phoenix&#8217;s retirement system has become the latest front in a battle between union-backed groups and a Texas hedge fund billionaire over the future of America&#8217;s public pensions. Hundreds of thousands of dollars, much of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44792,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44790\/revisions\/44792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}