Pat Macht

California Public Employees' Retirement System

Guest

Director of External Affairs for the California Public Employees Retirement System

Pat Macht on KCRW

Governor Brown has declared a stalemate on closing the $25 billion gap between state spending and revenue.

The State Budget and Public Pension Reform

Governor Brown has declared a stalemate on closing the $25 billion gap between state spending and revenue.

from Which Way, L.A.?

The California Public Employees Retirement System is the biggest thing of its kind in the country with $200 billion in assets.

The Trouble with CalPERS

The California Public Employees Retirement System is the biggest thing of its kind in the country with $200 billion in assets.

from Which Way, L.A.?

More from KCRW

President Trump’s executive order seeks to cut federal funding for gender transition medical procedures. KCRW hears from a mom of a 17-year-old who’s been transitioning since age 4.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

The cleanup is underway in Altadena and Pacific Palisades, and local organizations are educating immigrant day laborers on how to stay safe.

from KCRW Features

Investigators are looking into whether one of SoCal Edison’s idle power lines may have become re-energized and caused the Eaton Fire. The utility already faces over 40 lawsuits.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

The San Clemente City Council voted down a ban on giving food to strangers in public, including unhoused people.

from KCRW Features

President Trump’s ambitious goal to deport 10 million immigrants faces legal challenges and pushback. What do the on-the-ground realities look like?

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Hundreds gathered in immigrant-dense Santa Ana to protest the Trump administration’s deportation plans after a similar movement closed the 101 freeway in Downtown LA.

from KCRW Features

The image of Elon Musk’s Tuesday press conference in the Oval Office — the unelected billionaire not even eligible to be president — punctuated the unprecedented developments we’ve…

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Locals are frustrated as scenes of open drug use and misery play out day and night in a central LA park. Officials pledge outreach and cleanup.

from KCRW Features

Fast food workers lose about 16% of their pay every year, a new Northwestern University study found.

from KCRW Features