Groundhog Day: The States That Keep Repeating Their Pension Mistakes
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Figuring out how to manage a public pension system is hard, complicated work. Pension board trustees have to juggle complex investment strategy, and make critical […]
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Calm Amid the Chaos: Wisconsin’s Pension System and the 2008 Financial Crisis
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Download The Case Study | Calm Amid the Chaos: Wisconsin’s Pension System and the 2008 Financial Crisis Between September and December of 2008, as investors […]
Public Pension COLA Rates
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Inflation protection of retirement income is an important part of economic security. Cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) are a typical way for states and cities to protect […]
National Survey on Teachers’ Retirement Perspectives 2019
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Download The Report | National Survey on Teachers’ Retirement Perspectives (PDF) The shortfall in funding for teacher pension systems has grown to around $700 billion […]
Where Are State & Local Workers Allowed to Join Social Security?
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Millions of state agency workers, municipal employees, and police and firefighters across the country do not participate in Social Security. There are 12 states that […]
Where Are Teachers Allowed to Join Social Security?
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More than a million teachers across the country do not participate in Social Security. There are 11 states that have totally opted out of Social […]
Why Funded Status Matters
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The healthiest year on record for U.S. pension funds was 2001, when collectively the major retirement systems across the country reported being virtually 100% funded. […]