New Research Highlights Value of Pension Investments for Communities

Pensions invest over $20 billion; 186 million jobs created from 1995-2010

As state and municipal governments seek to address serious budget challenges, pension critics are advancing misdirected proposals to cut or eliminate defined benefit retirement plans. Countering the critics’ claims that pensions impose only costs, American Rights at Work Education Fund released “Creating Good Jobs for Our Communities: Pension Dollars at Work,” a brief demonstrating how private and public pension funds help drive the economies of communities through investments that, in addition to producing solid returns, create good jobs.  

Download the brief here.