And several proposals, including one requiring higher contributions from state workers and teachers and limiting cost-of-living increases, were on the table.
Legislators discussed steps like upping worker contributions, raising retirement ages and limiting cost-of-living adjustments for retirees.
Detroit will cut the pensions of general retirees by 4.5% and will limit cost-of-living increases for police and firefighters.
For instance, the administration's willingness to limit cost-of-living increases for Social Security recipients will have a far greater impact on black and Latino senior citizens, boosting poverty.
When asked how they "reduced their budget gaps" over the past two years, fewer than half had eliminated or limited cost of living raises for teachers, only 30percentt cut automatic step increases, and just 13percenttrimmeded benefits.
"They looked for other ways to limit costs of their state high risk pool programs -- surcharging premiums, imposing high deductibles and low lifetime limits, and most of all, excluding people based on their pre-existing conditions," Pollitz said.
Obligate inbreeders which suffer limited costs of sibmating (such as Nasonia vitripennis) would be expected to produce more daughters on mating with their brothers as they will be more related to them than to their sons.
In some trials, participants are intentionally allocated in unequal numbers to each intervention: for example, to gain more experience with a new procedure or to limit costs of the trial.
