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  • Haunted House of Pension Horrors: 2018 Edition

    It’s that time of year again — when the temperature is cooling off and the leaves are falling — when we must once again enter that most frightening of places: the Haunted House of Pension Horrors. Full of frightening characters…

  • How the Stock Market Affects Your Retirement
    financial stress testing

    Recently, the headlines in the financial section of the newspaper have been dominated by stories about the stock market declining. Some have termed this a “correction” believing that the value of the stock market was inflated to begin with. Regardless…

  • National Retirement Security Week, Part Three
    retirement

    This week is National Retirement Security Week! Proclaimed by an official declaration from Congress in 2016, each year supporters of 401(k)-style defined contribution plans use this week to promote their products. We’ve decided to take back retirement security from the…

  • National Retirement Security Week, Part Two
    retirement

    This week is National Retirement Security Week! Proclaimed by an official declaration from Congress in 2016, each year supporters of 401(k)-style defined contribution plans use this week to promote their products. We’ve decided to take back retirement security from the…

  • National Retirement Security Week, Part One
    retirement

    This week is National Retirement Security Week! Proclaimed by an official declaration from Congress, each year supporters of 401(k)-style defined contribution plans use this week to promote their products. We’ve decided to take back retirement security from the salesmen of…

  • Defined Benefit Pensions Support Local Economies
    public pensions

    During the month of October, we at the National Public Pension Coalition are celebrating retirement security. Next week is National Retirement Security Week. We’ll have more to say about that in a series of blog posts next week. This week,…

  • Why Defined Benefit Pensions Cost Less
    public pension plans

    During the month of October, we at the National Public Pension Coalition are celebrating retirement security. Next week is National Retirement Security Week. We’ll have more to say about retirement security in a series of blog posts next week. This…

  • Gubernatorial Elections and Public Pensions, Part Three
    public pensions

    The elections that will be held on November 6th promise to be some of the most significant in recent years. All 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are up for election, as well as 35 U.S. Senate seats…

  • Gubernatorial Elections and Public Pensions, Part Two
    public pensions

    The elections that will be held on November 6th promise to be some of the most significant in recent years. All 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are up for election, as well as 35 U.S. Senate seats…

  • Gubernatorial Elections and Public Pensions, Part One
    public pensions

    The elections that will be held on November 6th promise to be some of the most significant in recent years. All 435 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are up for election, as well as 35 U.S. Senate seats…

  • How the Koch Brothers Steal Your Pension

    John Arnold and his cronies are the most well-known opponents of public pensions. John Arnold funds the work of the Pew Research Center, the Retirement Security Initiative, the Reason Foundation, and other groups who are attempting to eliminate public pensions.…

  • The same old playbook: attacking the pensions of Washington Metro’s employees
    pension cuts

    Public employees of all stripes earn defined benefit pensions through their service to their communities. We frequently discuss teachers and firefighters, nurses and librarians, sanitation workers and police officers. Another group of public employees who earn defined benefit pensions are…