New tool offers access to data from Pew's comprehensive 50-state research on public pensions.

Retirees can spend less than those still in the workforce -- but a study finds that they didn't realize they'd have to cut back to do it.

There's typically a surge in enrollment at the end of the signup period, but myriad factors could dampen that trend this year.

Health spending overall grew at a rate of 3.9 percent last year, the smallest increase since 2013.