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The Retirement Security Report: An interactive index of the quality of public retirement plan benefits
The Retirement Security Report is an interactive, digital evaluation of the quality of retirement benefits offered to public workers nationwide using customizable score cards for all 335 statewide retirement plans currently open to new hires. The RSR is focused on determining whether individual plans are providing public workers with a path to retirement income security, showing how well plans work depending on career tenure and age.
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Selected Features
Introducing State of Pensions 2021
State of Pensions 2021 is an annual report on the status of statewide public pension systems, put into a historic context. State and local governments […]
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Introducing the Retirement Security Report
Equable Institute on June 24 launched the first edition of the Retirement Security Report, an interactive digital report that evaluates the quality of retirement benefits […]
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Introducing the National Landscape of State Retirement Benefits Report
Equable Institute on June 24 launched the first edition of “The National Landscape of State Retirement Benefits,” a topline report of the quality of retirement […]
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Are Texas Teacher Retirement Benefits Adequate?
Download the report | Are Texas Teacher Retirement Benefits Adequate? Long-serving veterans who remain in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas for 27 or more years […]
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Calm Amid the Chaos: Wisconsin’s Pension System and the 2008 Financial Crisis
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 […]
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Data & Resources
Equable Institute‘s Retirement Security Report looks at the adequacy of state retirement benefits for public sector workers, and now workers can find out how well […]
Understanding the legal environment for pension policies can be confusing for both lawmakers and public workers, but illuminating legally permissible policy pathways to improve funding […]
Equable Perspectives
August 18, 2020
State of Pensions 2020: Great Recession Lessons Learned for Public Pensions in the Age of COVID-19
There are many unknowns in the Age of COVID-19, but fortunately when it comes to forecasting what is likely to happen to public pension funds […]
There were some positive steps taken by statewide retirement systems during the decade after the Great Recession. But the strides were not good enough. Most […]