Thousands of pension fund managers and trustees are gathering for an all-expenses paid convention at the out-of-state Grand Geneva Resort and Spa, and local taxpayers are picking up the tab.
For 24 years, Karen Bradley worked as a nurse at St. Clare’s Hospital in Schenectady, N.Y. The pay wasn’t great, she says, but it was a good hospital, the place where her father once worked as a pharmacist. Bradley thought that if she stayed she’d have a nice pension for retirement.