Search
Categories
Tags
Date
Welcome to September’s final edition of This Week in Pensions! This is the news you need to know in the fight for a secure retirement. Before you dive into our top stories from this week, check out some stories of…
The National Public Pension Coalition (NPPC) was created 13 years ago this month out of a need to protect the hard-earned pensions of public employees who dedicated their careers to serving our communities. In that time, we’ve worked with retired…
The coronavirus pandemic is affecting the economic security of workers of all ages. However, it has been particularly damaging for older workers, as it has led to more of them retiring early. Older workers have been impacted by the one-two…
Welcome to this week’s edition of This Week in Pensions! This is the news you need to know in the fight for a secure retirement. Before you dive into our top stories from this week, check out some stories of…
Pensions have played a critical role in retirement security from the earliest days of the republic, going back to the American colonies offering pensions to soldiers who were injured during the Revolutionary War. Today, we’re looking back on the history…
[rwd align=’right’ imageid=’5727′ small=’0′ medium=’600′ large=’1000′ src=’https://protectpensions.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Gender-Wage-Gap-_webfig_01-1-1.png’]Today is African-American Women Equal Pay Day, which marks how much longer an African-American woman has to work into the year to make the same amount of money a white male made in 2019.…
A new research brief from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College shows how the coronavirus-induced economic crisis has inflicted widespread damage on workers’ ability to prepare for retirement. According to the study, the amount of working-age households that…
Two weeks ago, we highlighted ways pension opponents like the Reason Foundation gaslight the public on the facts about public pensions. Today we’re diving deeper into how the Reason Foundation spreads misinformation about public pensions by examining a blog post…
Welcome to this week’s edition of This Week in Pensions! This is the news you need to know in the fight for a secure retirement. Before you dive into our top stories from this week, check out some stories of…
Today, NPPC is re-sharing this blog originally posted on April 19, 2016, and written by Tyler Bond. Pensions often seem confusing because there are a number of technical details associated with them. While actuaries and economists may enjoy debating the…
Welcome to this week’s edition of This Week in Pensions! This is the news you need to know in the fight for a secure retirement. Before you dive into our top stories from this week, check out some stories of…
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic crisis, pension critics have been sowing doubt about public pensions by sharing blatantly false and misleading claims about them. This is gaslighting (a form of manipulation in which a…