Making mountains out of molehills: Do teacher pensions create “peculiar incentives” for retirement?
By Monique Morrissey
September 4, 2009
EPI Policy Memorandum #146
by Monique Morrissey with research assistance by Andrew Green
A new EPI Policy Memo responds to a recent study on teacher pensions and takes a closer look at why current benefit formulas are structured the way they are.
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