Retirement Benefits for Members of Congress
Source: Katelin P. Isaacs, Congressional Research Service (CRS), CRS Report, RL30631, March 19, 2014 Prior to 1984, neither federal civil service employees nor Members of Congress paid Social Security...
View ArticleSocial Security: The Government Pension Offset (GPO)
Source: Gary Sidor, Congressional Research Service (CRS), CRS Report for Congress, RL32453, April 23, 2014 Social Security spousal benefits were established in the 1930s to help support wives who are...
View ArticleDefined Contribution Plans in the Public Sector: An Update
Source: Alicia H. Munnell, Jean-Pierre Aubry and Mark Cafarelli, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, SLP#37, April 2014 The brief’s key findings are: - Although the introduction of...
View ArticlePutting Chicago Pension Costs in Context
Source: Thomas Cafcas, Good Jobs First, April 2014 Public pensions are under threat of cuts in Chicago. Rhetoric surrounding the issue seems to ignore the influence of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) on...
View Article2012 Census of Governments: Finance-Survey of Public Pensions: State- and...
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, April 29, 2014 The 2012 Census of Governments: Finance-Survey of Public Pensions: State- and Locally-Administered Defined Benefit Data was released on April 29, 2014. This...
View ArticlePublic Pension Reform in California
Source: John G. Kilgour, Compensation Benefits Review, Vol. 45 no. 6, November/December 2013 (subscription required) From the abstract: The Public Employee Pension Reform Act became effective in 2013....
View ArticleThe State of Retirement: Grading America’s Public Pension Plans
Source: Richard Johnson, Barbara Butrica, Owen Haaga, Benjamin Southgate, and Eugene Steuerle, Urban Institute, 2014 Our pension report card and interactive map grade state-administered retirement...
View ArticlePension Calculator
Source: Manhattan Institute, 2014 A defined benefit pension guarantees workers a fixed payment throughout their years of retirement. Though increasingly rare in the private sector, it remains the...
View ArticleEffects of Pension Plan Changes on Retirement Security
Source: Danielle Miller Wagner, Joshua Franzel, Elizabeth Kellar, Amy Mayers, Bonnie Faulk, Alex Brown, Keith Brainard, Jeannine Markoe Raymond, Dana Bilyeu, and Ady Dewey, Center for State and Local...
View ArticlePublic Pensions and the Lessons of Success
Source: Elizabeth K. Kellar, Governing, April 9, 2014 Some state and local retirement systems have found a formula for stability.
View ArticleCOLA Cuts in State/Local Pensions
Source: Alicia H. Munnell, Jean-Pierre Aubry and Mark Cafarelli, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, SLP#38, May 2014 The brief’s key findings are: - Since the financial crisis, 17 states...
View ArticleWorker Participation in Employer-Sponsored Pensions: A Fact Sheet
Source: John J. Topoleski, Congressional Research Service (CRS), CRS Report for Congress, R43439, March 26, 2014 This fact sheet provides data on the percentage of American workers who have access to...
View ArticleState and Local Government Finance: The New Fiscal Ice Age
Source: D. Roderick Kiewiet and Mathew D. McCubbins, Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 17, May 2014 (subscription required) From the abstract: The Great Recession that began in late 2007 had...
View ArticleState and Local Government Workforce: 2014 Trends
Source: Center for State and Local Government Excellence, May 2014 From the summary: Local and state governments continue their hiring trend although their workforces are still smaller since the 2008...
View ArticleStates Search for Retirement Security Beyond Obama’s myRA
Source: Penelope Lemov, Governing, May 29, 2014 The president’s public retirement savings account only goes so far, so about a dozen states are looking for alternative ways to help their many...
View ArticleThe Case for Public Pension Reform: Early Evidence from Kentucky
Source: Maria O’Brien Hylton, Boston University School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-22, May 12, 2014 From the abstract: Kentucky has managed to effect major changes to some of its pension...
View ArticleCentral Falls Retirees v. Bondholders: Assessing Fear of Contagion in Chapter...
Source: Maria O’Brien Hylton, Boston University School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-21, May 9, 2014 From the abstract: Modern Chapter 9 litigation has been characterized by extraordinary...
View ArticleState Fiscal Constitutions and the Law and Politics of Public Pensions
Source: Amy Monahan, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities – School of Law, Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-24,May 13, 2014 from the abstract: Pension plans for state and local employees...
View ArticleThe Funding of State and Local Pensions: 2013-2017
Source: Alicia H. Munnell, Jean-Pierre Aubry and Mark Cafarelli, Center for Retirement Research at Boston College (CRR), State and Local Pension Plans, Number 39, June 2014 The brief’s key findings...
View ArticleLitigating for the Future of Public Pensions in the United States
Source: Paul M. Secunda, Marquette Law School Legal Studies Paper No. 14-19, June 6, 2014 From the abstract: It is nearly impossible in the United States today to go long without reading a headline...
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