Those Unfunded Teacher Pension Plans
According to their own financial statements, the 59 pension plans covering most public school teachers in the United States are underfunded by $332 billion. However, this figure is overly optimistic. The plans use aggressive "discounting" assumptions (the calculations that determine how much cash is needed today to pay an obligation far in the future) to reduce their calculated liabilities.
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