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They may have been a bit slow, but better late than never. It is encouraging to see the NYT strongly endorse the proposal to have California offer a state managed retirement plan to workers in the private sector who don’t have a pension at their workplace. That fact that it took so long is a bit annoying to those of us who have been working on this issue for the last 15 years or longer, but no one ever accused the NYT of being on the cutting edge of anything. Anyhow, better late than never.