OregonLive.com Oregon Politics: Food stamps cuts, padding PERS and Obama's Portland tripOregonLive.comThe Oregonian's Ted Sickinger once again mines recently released public employee pension data to report on how many workers have several ways to pad the size of the payments they will receive from the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System.and …
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