A Growing Gap Between Healthier and Worse Off Pension Plans

Route Fifty: There's a growing gap between some of the nation's best and worst funded pension plans for state and local government employees, according to a report out this week.

Researchers with the Center for State and Local Government Excellence looked at data for the 180 plans in what's known as the Public Plans Database. They found that the overall funding level for these plans, as of 2017, was 72 percent, similar to the prior year.

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