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Amounts paid to outside investment consultants by big public pension funds as much as 36 percent of what these funds pay for their employees' salaries.

New tools allow easy access to and filtering of 12 years of data. How long did George W. Bush take to nominate? President Obama? For the Senate to act?

When adjusted for inflation and population, per capita funding in 2011 down 33 percent from 1983.

When taking into account the growing size of the population, most parts of the federal civilian workforce are effectively much smaller than they were in 1978.