September 6, 2018

Did You Know NFL Players Earn a Pension?

The 2018 NFL season kicks off tonight with a “battle of the birds” between the Atlanta Falcons and the reigning Super Bowl champions, the Philadelphia Eagles. As Americans once again tune in to the nation’s most popular sport, we thought …

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August 31, 2018

This Week in Pensions: August 31, 2018

Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! As we do most weeks, we have gathered the best stories about pensions and retirement security from the previous week. This is the news you need to know in the …

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August 28, 2018

John Arnold Meddling in California Politics

Over the years, we’ve detailed the many different ways in which John Arnold attacks public pensions nationwide. He has used more than $50 million of his personal fortune to support anti-pension groups like the Retirement Security Initiative; to promote biased …

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August 23, 2018

A Firsthand Account of Pension Madness in Kentucky

Today’s blog post is a guest post from Ellen Suetholz, the coordinator of the Kentucky Public Pension Coalition. In 2017, she filed an open records request to obtain the suppressed actuarial analysis of an earlier pension bill. She was denied …

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August 20, 2018

Income Inequality Causes Retirement Inequality

The goal of a retirement savings plan, like a pension, is to replace a certain amount of pre-retirement income during retirement. In earlier periods of American history, many elderly citizens spent their last years in desperate poverty with little savings …

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