Media Coverage of Security: What Americans Want in a Job
Working — What Matters Most Washington Post (1/22/08) What Americans Want from a Job International Facility Management Association (1/13/08) Health Insurance Tops Workers’ List of Job Rewards...
View ArticleQ & A with Stuart Greenfield
Q: Why is the public sector workforce older and more educated than the private sector? Stuart Greenfield: Look at the last century. The baby boomers were born from 1946 to 1964. Kennedy was elected...
View ArticleMayors seek pension funding solutions
Center President/CEO Elizabeth Kellar told mayors attending the U.S. Conference of Mayors Winter meeting on January 19 that while most state and local pensions were more than 80 percent funded in 2008,...
View ArticleWebinar: The Pension Reform Landscape
Webinar held June 21, 2012 Participants: Keith Brainard, Research Director, National Association of State Retirement Administrators (NASRA) Joshua Franzel, Vice President, Research, Center for State...
View ArticleAssociations Tackle Public Pension Funding Issue
Elizabeth K. Kellar Center President & CEO Why have the national associations of state and local governments established a pension funding task force? In a nutshell, it is because the Governmental...
View ArticleThe Evolving Role of Defined Contribution Plans in the Public Sector
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE EVOLVING ROLE OF DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLANS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR New ANC, NAGDCA, and Center for Excellence Report WASHINGTON, DC, 10/16/12 — The Arthur N. Caple Foundation...
View ArticleWhy Pension Reform Takes Years
By Center President & CEO Elizabeth K. Kellar Decisions made by state governments on retirement age, benefit levels, and how pensions are calculated can be difficult to change, even when a local...
View ArticleWhere Things Stand: The State and Local Workforce Going into 2013
As 2012 comes to a close, Center Vice President of Research Joshua Franzel has been speaking to various groups about the current structure of state and local government workforces, changes to this...
View ArticleRetooling Public Pensions and the Future of Public Work
What can cities do to address pension funding challenges? Because of a combination of budget constraints and lower investment returns over the last decade, the average funded ratio for state and local...
View ArticleSave the Date: The Future of Retirement Summit
When: Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 1-4 pm Where: National Press Club, Washington, DC What: The Center is convening a Future of Retirement Summit to address the workforce, legal, financial, policy, and...
View ArticlePublic Pension System Reforms: Outlook for 2013
In 2009, in the wake of the economic downturn, states increased their efforts to address the sustainability of their public pension systems. Since then, nearly every state legislature has passed...
View ArticlePension Reforms: Headaches and Dueling Calculations
Center President/CEO Elizabeth Kellar gave an overview of public pension reforms at the National Association of Counties (NACo) Legislative Conference in March. Her talk looked at why pension headaches...
View Article2013 Outlook: States May Offer DC Plans for Some Employee Groups
Most of the pension reforms states have passed since 2009 have made changes to their existing defined benefit plans. The reforms have included modifications to the eligibility requirements or benefit...
View ArticleCenter Summit Debates Widespread Changes to Retirement Plans
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 24, 2013 FUTURE OF RETIREMENT SUMMIT Widespread changes to retirement plans debated WASHINGTON, DC – Aging workers and widespread changes to retirement plans challenge state...
View ArticleHow Strong is Your Talent Pipeline?
As the pace of retirements accelerates, government leaders are paying more attention to staff development. “The future is speeding up,” Center President and CEO Elizabeth Kellar told attendees at a...
View ArticleState Pension Reform Revisited
State pension reform has been the topic of much discussion since 2009, when the effects of the economic downturn on state and local governments forced an examination of all aspects of their finances....
View ArticlePreparing Employees for Retirement
State and local government employees considering retirement face many of the same pressures affecting private sector workers. Pensions may replace less income in the future, health care costs in...
View ArticleWebinar: Retirement in 2050: Generation Y Planning
Join ICMA-RC and the Center on Thursday, Oct. 17, at 3:00 ET for a special webinar to kick off National Save for Retirement Week. As Generation Y becomes a larger segment of the state and local...
View ArticleCenter President/CEO Kellar Keynotes Burlington, VT, Pension Forum
Like many local governments, the city of Burlington, Vermont, has seen its funded status slip and its annual required contributions grow over the last decade. City leaders held a pension forum on...
View ArticleRecruitment, Retention and Succession Planning in Local Health Departments
Retaining currently funded positions is even more important to local health department leaders than recruiting new and retaining existing employees, according to a new research by the Center and its...
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