American Experiment interviewed Edward Siedle, public pension warrior, for our podcast yesterday. The full 32-minute video of the interview: A former lawyer for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),…
The financial health of the Teachers Retirement Association (TRA) affects the fund’s long-term viability and ability to offer the majority of Minnesota educators the retirement benefit they have been promised.…
A new, independent report says that public school teachers’ pensions are underperforming the relevant benchmarks by more than $1 billion (with a “b”), per year. That’s what generated this provocative…
The phrases “cooking the books” and “Madoff miracle” appear in a New York Post headline from last month (August 10) on the state Teachers Retirement Association (TRA) pension fund. The…
For years, American Experiment’s message on teacher pensions has been clear: We need to keep the pension promises made to teachers. The Teachers Retirement Association (TRA) — which manages pensions…