in march 2014, the "chronicle of philanthropy" reported that "pensions and investments" had asked the pew charitable trust to stop taking money from the ljaf because of the ljaf's support for pension reform. in july 2014, the arnold foundation donated $2.8 million to the center for public integrity to launch a new project focused on state campaign finance. according to the "international business times", "as cpi was negotiating the arnold grant, arnold’s name was absent from a cpi report on pension politics." arnold has spent at least $28 million on a campaign to roll back pension benefits for public workers. despite this spend,“when people hear of an effort to get rid of pensions,” says bailey childers of the national public pension coalition (nppc), which is supported by unions, “the source is almost always john arnold.”