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Most state and local governments provide their employees with traditional pensions, which are nice to have. But not all pensions are equally generous. The monthly benefits vary from one place to the next, and some governments have cut costs by reducing pensions for their newest hires. Further, one in four public-sector workers aren’t currently covered…

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The release of the Federal Reserve’s 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) provides, once again, an opportunity to take stock of retirement security. For this task, we use our National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI), which compares SCF households’ projected replacement rates – retirement income as a percentage of preretirement income – with target rates that would…