Pensions

• 77 Percent of Americans Support Pensions for All Workers, According to New Research from the National Institute on Retirement Security   Americans See Pensions as Important Tool to Recruit & Retain State and Local Public Employees

  March 29, 2021:   WASHINGTON, D.C., March 17, 2021 – A new national survey finds that 77 percent of Americans agree that all workers, not just those working for state and local government, should have a pension. And even though the nation...Read more >

• Study Finds Public Pensions Power the Economy

  January 07, 2019: Public pension funds contributed a net $137.3 billion to state and local government coffers during 2016, underscoring their power to strengthen the U.S. economy, according to an analysis by the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Syst...Read more >

• Your pension could vanish in a constitutional convention

  October 28, 2015: Your pension is among the many protections and benefits at stake if New York state voters approve a constitutional convention in 2017. The New York State Constitution mandates that every 20 years, voters must vote whether to hold a constitutional con...Read more >