{"id":2572,"date":"2016-11-21T02:42:42","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T08:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2016-11-21T02:54:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T08:54:27","slug":"dallas-stares-down-a-texas-size-threat-of-bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2572","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Stares Down a Texas-Size Threat of Bankruptcy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But under its glittering surface, Dallas has a problem that could bring it to its knees, and that could be an early test of America\u2019s postelection commitment to safe streets and tax relief: The city\u2019s pension fund for its police officers and firefighters is near collapse and seeking an immense bailout.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/21\/business\/dealbook\/dallas-pension-debt-threat-of-bankruptcy.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=second-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0\">Dallas Stares Down a Texas-Size Threat of Bankruptcy &#8211; The New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now, the <a title=\"group's website\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dpfp.org\/\">Dallas Police and Fire Pension System<\/a> has asked the city for a one-time infusion of $1.1 billion, an amount roughly equal to Dallas&#8217;s entire general fund budget but not even close to what the pension fund needs to be fully funded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But under its glittering surface, Dallas has a problem that could bring it to its knees, and that could be an early test of America\u2019s postelection commitment to safe streets and tax relief: The city\u2019s pension fund for its police &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2572\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current_events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2574,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions\/2574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}