Explain what is meant by the "California Rule" with respect to public employee retirement benefits.

What will be an ideal response?

State employees' earned retirement benefits have been shielded by court decisions that amount to a "California Rule": promised pensions must be honored as ironclad throughout an employee's career and cannot be reduced without equal compensation. Public workers in 12 other states are now similarly guarded. However, recent court rulings put the sanctity of these contracts in doubt.

Political Science

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a. the National Science Foundation b. the Securities and Exchange Commission c. the Consumer Product Safety Commission d. the National Safety Regulations Board

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The research project that observed casual homosexual encounters, and then tracked subjects to their homes using information from the subjects' license plates to obtain further survey information is the _______

A) ARTICHOKE program B) Zimbardo experiment C) Humphreys' study D) Milgram experiment

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