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  • 2016 State Outlook: Missouri
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    [rwd imageid=’776′ small=’0′ medium=’600′ large=’1000′ src=’http://protectpensions.org/files/2016/01/Missouri-Pensions-NPPC.png’] Retirees and public employees in Missouri should feel good about the security of their retirement. Missouri’s public pensions are healthy and state politicians have largely avoided unnecessary, misguided attacks on pensions. Last year, the…

  • Retirement on the Rocks

    Yesterday, economics professor Christian Weller spoke at the Center for American Progress about his new book Retirement on the Rocks. His book presents a detailed look at the retirement crisis facing Americans. Not only does he diagnose the problem, but…

  • The Star Wars Theory of Retirement

    Last week, NPPC’s executive director Bailey Childers wrote on CNBC about the December 2015 jobs report. She talked about how the release of Star Wars: the Force Awakens accounted for thousands of new jobs, but those jobs aren’t likely to…

  • 2016 State Outlook: Michigan
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    [rwd imageid=’779′ small=’0′ medium=’600′ large=’1000′ src=’http://protectpensions.org/files/2016/01/Michigan-Pensions-NPPC.png’] This week the Michigan state legislature began its 2016 legislative session. As legislators there consider how best to provide retirement security to public employees, it’s important to look back on Michigan’s history. In 1997,…

  • 2016 State Outlook: Colorado
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    [rwd imageid=’781′ small=’0′ medium=’600′ large=’1000′ src=’http://protectpensions.org/files/2016/01/Colorado-Pensions-NPPC.png’] The Colorado state legislature begins its 2016 legislative session today, with pensions and retirement security both on the agenda for this year’s session. During the break between the 2015 and 2016 legislative sessions, three…

  • Wisconsin Retirement System: a Model for the Nation

    Pension systems thrive when they are well-funded. There is no better example of this than the Wisconsin Retirement System: it has been fully funded since 2003. There’s no secret formula here that makes WRS such a success- the state makes…

  • Good Pension News for the New Year

    The new year brings a new start in politics: new state legislative sessions, new candidates running for office, and new ballot measures being proposed. 2016 is also an election year, which means people all across the country will be talking…

  • Protecting Pensions in the Year Ahead

    Legislative sessions begin in some states this week. Here’s a quick look at some of the places we’ll protect pensions in the year ahead: Kentucky: newly sworn-in Governor Matt Bevin campaigned on gutting Kentucky’s public pensions and forcing state employees…

  • Happy New Year!

    Happy New Year from everyone at the National Public Pension Coalition!  All Americans deserve a dignified, secure retirement and we will fight to protect retirement security for teachers, firefighters, nurses, librarians, and the many other public employees who keep our…

  • What a Pension Means to Me

    Today’s post comes to us from Grant Wood, the coordinator of the Arizona Retirement Security Coalition. It was originally published in the Arizona Capitol Times: At 23 years old, only 18 months out of college, and with a hefty pile…

  • NPPC’s Naughty and Nice List

    ‘Tis the holiday season. While most folks now have visions of sugar plums dancing through their heads, we at the National Public Pension Coalition are still focused on protecting a secure retirement for teachers, firefighters, nurses, and other public employees.…

  • 2015: the Year in Pensions
    The pension crisis is a myth

    NPPC’s Executive Director Bailey Childers takes a look back at the year in pensions on the Huffington Post. We wanted to be sure you saw it too: For years firefighters, nurses, teachers, social workers, roads crews and others across the…