The Boston College Center for Retirement studies thinks it may have a new way to help sponsors of public pension funds understand how they're performing.

State budgets got much healthier in 2014 thanks mainly to increased spending on health via federal Medicaid dollars.

States, according to a budget reform group, are often guilty of exacerbating the high discount rate problem by not making the necessary annual contributions to the(ir) pension funds.

We already know that women make less than men and live longer, but now yet another study has surveyed them to learn how they feel about retirement and how financially prepared they are for it.