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Signature Reports

Flagship research products, updated regularly to track public retirement systems and their impact on workers and communities.

Annual Report

State of Pensions

This our annual report on the financial status of state and local public pension systems, put into a historic context.

Benefits Research

Retirement Security Report

The Retirement Security Report (RSR) is a comprehensive, interactive assessment of the quality of benefits being offered to public sector workers nationwide.

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Who Benefits?

Equable worked with the Connecticut chapter of Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), and later, Good Policy Partners, to illuminate the inequitable impacts of Connecticut’s teacher pension financing on students across the state.

The Pension Debt Challenge for Equity in Education

Equable partnered with The Opportunity Institute (now a part of Children Now) to analyze the direct impact of pension debt on education budgets in California, Texas, Florida, and Ohio.

Pension Debt & Ed Budgets

Hidden Education Funding Cuts

Rapidly growing teacher pension debt has caused retirement costs to triple as a share of state and local education budgets since 2001, leaving less money to support classrooms, teachers, and students.