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• Source: New York Times
• Date: April 04, 2007
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• Bylines: Jo Craven-McGinty , Mary Williams Walsh
• Topics: State Government
• Data Types: State Data
• Description/Excerpt: In 2005, New Jersey put either $551 million, $56 million or nothing into its pension fund for teachers. All three figures appeared in various state documents - though the state now says that the actual amount was zero. The state has long acknowledged that it has been putting less money into the pension fund than it should. But an analysis of its records by The New York Times shows that in many cases, New Jersey has overstated even what it has claimed to be contributing, sometimes by hundreds of millions of dollars.