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For the second week of Retirement Security Month, we are highlighting a post from January 2019 on public pensions and rural areas. We’ve been talking a lot this month about the economic benefits of public pensions at both the state and national levels. Through…
For the second year in a row, NPPC is celebrating Retirement Security Month during the month of October. This month, we will be sharing some of our favorite content, including op-eds, videos, and worker stories. In the spirit of the…
Throughout the fall, NPPC will be sharing the stories of retired and current public employees, told in their own words. [youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzacZ93533Q&list=PLqa1XH6sllcggbYiw5XTP1n1gtOOXcVl5&index=25″]
Twelve years ago, the National Public Pension Coalition (NPPC) was established. In 2007, public pensions were under attack, and since then, we’ve seen many of the same anti-pension opponents continue to demean public employees and their hard-earned pensions. NPPC has…
Throughout the fall, NPPC will be sharing the stories of retired and current public employees, told in their own words. [youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMWMGRdsPlM”]
This month, we wrote about The Truth About Cost Sharing and Pew Charitable Trusts using pension plans in Tennessee, South Dakota, and Wisconsin as examples of cost-sharing policy. We went on to debunk the assertion that cost-sharing policies are the…
Throughout the fall, NPPC will be sharing the stories of retired and current public employees, told in their own words. [youtube url=”https://youtu.be/wiNRhvSY4iU”]
In a piece that was published in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, Emma Donahue, Secure PERA’s program manager makes the argument that a pension provides a more secure retirement than a 401(k) and PERA’s most recent CAFR report proves it.…
Throughout the fall, NPPC will be sharing the stories of retired and current public employees, told in their own words. [youtube url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85pTGUrOGtM&list=PLqa1XH6sllcggbYiw5XTP1n1gtOOXcVl5&index=5″]
This year and last year, many have used the term cost-sharing when referring to certain types of pension policy. In particular, Pew Charitable Trusts has been advocating for cost-sharing in pension plans across the nation using pension plans in Tennessee,…
Throughout the summer, NPPC will be sharing the stories of retired and current public employees, told in their own words. [youtube url=”https://youtu.be/mGvzqj9BS7A”]
This week’s blog post was written by NPPC’s Executive Director, Bridget Early Earlier this month we wrote about the National Institute on Retirement Security’s new set of case studies on Kentucky, Alaska, and Michigan. The studies concluded that unfunded liabilities…