January 23, 2020
Yesterday Good Jobs First (GJF), a non-profit, non-partisan research center focusing on economic development accountability, released new reports showing how states give away millions of dollars in corporate tax breaks and subsidies each year and comparing that with the cost …
January 15, 2020
A new study from the University of Massachusetts’s Gerontology Institute evaluated the gap that exists for retirees who live between poverty and having just enough income to cover their necessary expenses. Retirees in several states face an uphill battle when …
December 4, 2019
On November 15, 2019, the Oklahoma House of Representatives held an interim study committee meeting on why retirees need a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). Rep. Avery Frix, the sponsor of the study, previously led a push to grant public employees a …
November 22, 2019
Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! 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 fight for a secure retirement. …
November 22, 2019
Some leaders of Oklahoma’s pension systems think the systems can withstand paying a cost-of-living adjustment to state retirees next year. State retirees have gone 11 years without a cost-of-living adjustment in their pension checks, but that could change after executive …
November 21, 2019
This year we have taken a look at the history of pensions in Kansas and Kentucky. Fraught with years of underfunding, legislative tax breaks, and subsidies to corporations, both Kansas and Kentucky’s pension systems are underfunded. Oklahoma was in a …
