Mayors 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 [...]
Q & 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 […]
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 [...]
The Economy is Squeezing Resources: Do You Have the Talent You Need for the Future?
Free Webinar: Using the Workforce Assessment Tool The Center for State and Local Government Excellence and AARP have joined forces to provide you with the latest analysis of financial trends […]
Retiree Health Care: Ideas and Strategies
Costs of providing health care benefits for retirees are rising rapidly for cities and counties. Two panels at the 2008 ICMA conference looked at how local governments are handling these […]
ASTHO survey shows no improvement in workforce trends over last four years.
Recent data from a new survey of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) indicates workforce trends have not improved over the last four years. The state public […]
Public Pensions: Taking the Long View
Center President and CEO Elizabeth Kellar told attendees at the Texas County and District Retirement System that it is important to take a long view when it comes to retirement […]
Pension Pain: State should alter public plans
Harrisburg Patriot-News Sunday, March 01, 2009 An old adage says, “The art is not in making money, but keeping it.” That certainly seems to be the case for Pennsylvania’s two [...]
Infrastructure as Investment
Rohatyn Calls for Bold Action to Rebuild Nation’s Economy “When New York City faced its financial crisis in 1975 and threatened to bankrupt the State, I presumed it was a […]
South Dakota State’s Retirement Plan Experience Shows Power of Automatic Enrollment to Dramatically Increase Participation
Provides Blueprint for Other States to Boost Employee Retirement Savings (9/15/10) A study of South Dakota’s Supplemental Retirement Plan (SRP) has found that instituting automatic enrollment [...]
