Recently, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy — a right-wing think tank funded heavily by the Koch brothers — penned an article attacking the Michigan Office of Retirement Services (ORS) for recent accounting errors. While the errors were real, the …
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Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! As we do most weeks, we have gathered the top stories about pensions and retirement security from the previous week. This is the news you need to know in the …
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Washington today is divided. One could say that many of our states are divided as well. With so many marquee issues on the line over the next few years — tax reform, healthcare, Social Security, Medicare — there is one …
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Should I stay or should I go? This question is more than just the refrain from the insanely catchy 1982 hit by The Clash. It’s also a daily quandary facing Oklahoma’s underpaid educators. Shawn P. Sheehan, Oklahoma’s 2016 Teacher of …
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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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Long-time readers of Defined Benefit are familiar with John Arnold, the money behind many attacks on public pensions. Loyal readers have also heard about the Pew Research Center, which uses Arnold’s money to promote flawed anti-pension research, and the Retirement …
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