North Carolina is known for a lot of things. Controversial voter ID laws. Duke basketball and Tar Heel basketball. Kitty Hawk. I have an unlikely suspect to add to the list: North Carolina has one of the strongest public pension systems in the country that serves teachers, firefighters, police officers and tens of thousands of other public workers.

My organization recently analyzed three of the most successful public pension systems in the country including North Carolina, which is well-funded and well-managed, with one in eight working North Carolinians having access to a public pension…