Category: Pension Security
- 01/26/11 California’s State Treasurer: States Should Not Consider Bankruptcy Some conservative governors and state legislators and their right-wing allies are floating a dangerous suggestion that threatens the retirement security of public sector workers: Have states declare bankruptcy to get out of their pension obligations.
- 01/25/11 Rhetoric v. Reality: A Viewer’s Guide to Rep. Paul Ryan’s State of the Union Response Americans United for Change has put together this handy guide for watching tonight's Republican response to Pres. Barack Obama's State of the Union Address tonight [...]
- 01/19/11 AFSCME Members to Maryland Lawmakers: ‘Enough is Enough!’ Approximately 150 members of AFSCME Maryland met with their state representatives in Annapolis on Jan. 12 – the first day of the legislative session – to send a clear message that the state’s budget should not be balanced on their backs.
- 01/18/11 Battling the Lies Against Public Employees AFSCME International Sec.-Treas. Lee Saunders recently took AFSCME’s “Stop the Lies” campaign to a nationwide radio audience.
- 12/23/10 Report from the Public Pension Leadership Meeting AFSCME activists, local leaders and retirees met with key experts and allies to develop strategies and tools to defend our modest pensions against this unprecedented assault.
- 12/02/10 Stop Believing the Myths About 401(k) Plans The former publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote a column this week calling public employee pensions “grotesque shadows of their initial good intention” and pushing private savings plans as the future of retirement.
- 10/06/10 Social Security Sense and Nonsense In a new paper and podcast I’ve tried to correct some of the misinformation that critics of Social Security have been spreading about the program. Here are the facts. Social Security is a well-run, fiscally responsible program.
- 10/01/10 Could Simpson or Boehner Pass the Social Security Test? AFSCME President Gerald W. McEntee has a great idea for a reality television show. He suggested it as part of a conference call Thursday sponsored by the Strengthen Social Security coalition [...]
- 09/29/10 Wake Up, Washington! Securing Retirement Americans should be able to enjoy a secure retirement after a lifetime of work. AFSCME is participating in “Wake Up, Washington!” Month to encourage Americans across the country to tell lawmakers to keep their hands off Social Security [...]
- 09/28/10 America's Failed 401(k) Experiment While the unfunded pension liabilities in many public retirement funds have received an inordinate amount of attention, the larger retirement deficit of most Americans is not generating the level of concern that it deserves.
