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What Does a Municipal Bankruptcy Look Like?

In Vallejo, Calif., the city just outside San Francisco trying to emerge from its 2008 bankruptcy, it looks like “unsecured creditors receive 5 to 20 cents on the dollar.” And who are those unsecured creditors?

Mostly city employees and retirees.