Editor's Note: This major investigative story in the Sunday Oregonian described the challenges faced by officials seeking to make Oregon's Public Employees Retirement System more affordable.

An early statement in the story says: "To bail it out, taxpayers will see their annual bill for the system more than double in 2011. That will gobble an extra $1 billion out of state and local coffers in the next biennium, with no new teachers, cops or services to show for it."

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