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Kan, Leslie; Aldeman, Chad – Bellwether Education Partners, 2014
Retirement savings are often described as a three-legged stool: Social Security, employer retirement plans, and personal savings. For many American workers, Social Security is the most consistent portion of the three-legged model, providing a solid plank of retirement savings. But nationwide, more than 1 million teachers--about 40 percent of all…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, Elementary School Teachers, Public School Teachers
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Smith, Daniel L.; Wenger, Jeffrey B. – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013
This paper employs panel estimators with data on the 50 American states for the years 1963 to 2006 to test the relationship between Unemployment Insurance (UI) trust fund solvency and UI benefit generosity. We find that both average and maximum weekly UI benefit amounts, as ratios to the average weekly wage, are higher in states and in years with…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Insurance, State Surveys, Policy Analysis