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      <![CDATA[<br />
Funded, yes, but they also lost a lot of money in the 2008/9 downturns.<br />
        
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      <![CDATA[In case anyone's looking for the linked report, it's mirrored here: <a href="http://db.tt/zNSDuY1N" rel="nofollow">http://db.tt/zNSDuY1N</a>
        
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      <![CDATA[bad linky<br>
        
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      <![CDATA[Well, it's good news they're currently well-funded, especially with their 7.9% investment return assumptions per the most recent CAFR (<a href="http://www.drs.wa.gov/administration/annual-report/cafr/" rel="nofollow">http://www.drs.wa.gov/administration/ann&hellip;</a>). Anyone outside pension boards think that's a realistic return (especially given the investment performance they show in aforementioned CAFR)?
        
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      <![CDATA[Sweet, I just hit the 2 year mark as a state employee, but it takes 5 years to be vested. So maybe I'm not making contributions in vain right now.
        
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