Retirement

Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on State Treasurer Dale Folwell’s commitment to transparency involving the State Health Plan and public pensions. John Trump’s Daily Journal explains how the COVID-19 pandemic exposes flaws in North Carolina’s alcohol regulations.

State senator Wiley Nickel and state representative Julie von Haefen, both Democrats from Wake County, are holding a press conference this afternoon to show how concerned they are about retirees and teachers. Sen. Nickel jumped the gun with a string of tweets last night calling for new negotiations on budget…

The magazine, Chief Investment Officer (CIO), recently published an article about North Carolina’s pension system based on a joint report between the John Locke Foundation and the California-based Reason Foundation. The article’s author, Michael Katz, explains: An analysis of North Carolina’s Teachers’ and State Employees’ Retirement System (TSERS) says…

Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on the continuing debate about reforming North Carolina’s certificate-of-need restrictions. Joseph Coletti’s Daily Journal highlights a new report on long-term challenges facing North Carolina’s state government pension fund.

A study on pension reform was published this week. The report was co-authored by JLF’s Joe Coletti and four writers from the Reason Foundation: Len Gilroy, Jen Sidorova, Truong Bui, and Raheem Williams. North Carolina has a complex and underfunded pension system for state employees. In his recent research…

Anthony Hennen of the Martin Center focuses on pension spiking within the University of North Carolina System and state community colleges. In 2014, the North Carolina legislature passed a law to curb “pension spiking” among public employees. Pension spiking is when a worker dramatically increases their compensation at the…

Julie Havlak reports for Carolina Journal Online on a new study that calls North Carolina a model for addressing unfunded government retireee health benefits. John Trump’s Daily Journal asks whether a lawsuit is necessary to reform North Carolina’s alcohol regulations.

Retiree health benefits today represent a $31 billion unfunded liability for state government on top of the $10 billion unfunded liability for state employee pensions. Daniel DiSalvo of the Manhattan Institute writes in a paper released today that North Carolina could offer a model for other states…