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After a year-long legislation effort to strengthen retirement benefits for independent workers, Senator Bill Cassidy has ...

Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on religion in public schools. The trial highlighted ...

State data analyzed by the Illinois Policy Institute reveals the unrealistic and unsustainable nature of the state’s "Tier 1" ...

The majority of affected beneficiaries already began receiving their increased monthly benefit amounts in April.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed into law by President Donald Trump over the July 4, 2025, weekend, is a ...

For Paul Alto, a lifelong Cleveland, Ohioan, the plan was always to retire at 65. But after having surgery to treat two ...

State data shows 31,937 members of Illinois’ five pension systems collected $100,000 a year or more in retirement benefits ...

Here's what to know about the Boater Freedom Act, signed into law on May 19, 2025, and boating laws ahead of the Fourth of July. Vroom vroom: Low-speed vehicles, golf carts grow in popularity, but ...

The lack of pensions for Revolutionary War veterans was a national shame so profound that President James Monroe included it in his first State of the Union to Congress in December 1817.

Bill would allow cities to boost pensions for public workers despite unfunded liabilities California taxpayers are on the hook for paying any shortfall in retirement benefits that investments don ...