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Institute for Workplace Studies-----------------Professor Samuel B. Bacharach

School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies

Cornell University

16 East 34th Street, 4th floor--------------------Stuart Basefsky

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Census

 

2012 Survey of Public Pensions: State- and Locally-Administered Defined Benefit Data [29 April 2014]

http://www.census.gov/govs/retire/

 

Tip Sheet 29 April 2014

2012 Census of Governments: Finance — Survey of Public Pensions: State- and Locally-Administered Defined Benefit Data

http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/governments/cb14-tps32.html

 

Provides a comprehensive look at the financial activity and membership information for the nation's approximately 4,000 state- and locally-administered public-employee pension systems, including revenues, expenditures, cash and investment holdings, membership and beneficiaries. The Census of Governments: Finance — Survey of Public Pensions, conducted quinquennially (years ending in "2" and "7"), is the only source of data on all state and local pension systems. The total cash and investment holdings of the nation's state- and locally-administered defined benefit pensions systems totaled $3.1 trillion in 2012.

 

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