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  • The Growing Crisis: Public Worker Shortages and the Threat to Workplace Safety
    Stressed Teacher

    In recent years, the safety of public employees in the workplace has become a pressing concern. From the increase in mass violence to the challenges posed by political unrest and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, state and local employees,…

  • This Week in Pensions: June 2, 2023
    This Week in Pensions

    Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! This is the news you need to know in the fight for a secure retirement. We have gathered the top stories about pensions and retirement security from the previous week.…

  •  This Week In Pensions: May 26, 2023
    This Week in Pensions

    Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! This is the news you need to know in the fight for a secure retirement. We have gathered the top stories about pensions and retirement security from the previous week.…

  • This Week In Pensions: May 19, 2023
    This Week in Pensions

    Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! This is the news you need to know in the fight for a secure retirement. We have gathered the best stories about pensions and retirement security from the previous week.…

  • Unmasking the Puppeteers: How Anti-Pension Billionaires Pull the Strings

    Since its founding, we at the National Public Pension Coalition (NPPC) have worked in states nationwide to defend and better the retirement benefits of hard-working public employees. Far too often, our state coalitions, and our organization nationally, encounter mysterious, billionaire-backed,…

  • This Week In Pensions: May 12, 2023
    This Week in Pensions

    Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! This is the news you need to know in the fight for a secure retirement. We have gathered the best stories about pensions and retirement security from the previous week.…

  • Major League Baseball’s Pension Plan is a Homerun
    MLB Field

    There are few things more American than apple pie, Coca-Cola, and baseball–but while the crack of a bat in the ballpark is a sure harbinger of springtime, it’s also the sound of retirement security. That’s right! We talk a lot…

  • This Week in Pensions: May 5, 2023
    This Week in Pensions

    Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! This is the news you need to know in the fight for a secure retirement. We have gathered the top stories about pensions and retirement security from the previous week.…

  • To All Public Workers, Thank You!

    Public Service Recognition Week—observed the first week of May– is an opportunity to honor the hard work and dedication of the people who serve our country in various roles in the public sector. We celebrate the contributions of our civil…

  • This Week In Pensions: April 28, 2023
    This Week in Pensions

    Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! This is the news you need to know in the fight for a secure retirement. We have gathered the best stories about pensions and retirement security from the previous week.…

  • A World Without Pensions Would Eventually Be A World Without Public Employees

    Picture this—classrooms full of children ready to learn but few educators there to teach. Patients in critical need of care but few nurses to tend to them, or a loved one in a dangerous situation, but emergency services are too…

  • This Week in Pensions: April 21, 2023
    This Week in Pensions

    Welcome to the latest edition of This Week in Pensions! You need to know this news in the fight for a secure retirement. We have gathered the best stories about pensions and retirement security from the week. Legislators in Connecticut…