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The brief’s key findings are: Critics claim that the compensation of state-local workers is overly generous. Previous studies have found mixed results. Our analysis finds that compensation of state-local and private sector workers is roughly similar: state-local workers earn 9.5 percent less than comparable private sector workers; but this wage gap is mostly offset by…

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The brief’s key findings are: Recent commissions have proposed a “chained” consumer price index to adjust Social Security benefits. The chained index, which allows spending patterns to shift as prices change, would rise more slowly than the current index. But the current index likely understates the inflation faced by the elderly, and the low-income elderly…