According to statistics released by the Census Bureau and reported by BNA, in 1997 membership in state and local government employee retirement systems reached an all-time high of more than fifteen million. The following tables contain information on state and local government employee retirement systems, summarized for the country and for each state: summary of state and local government employee retirement system finances; revenues of retirement systems by state and level of government; expenditures of retirement systems by state and level of government; cash and investment holdings of retirement systems by state and level of government; and number and membership of retirement systems by state. You can check out these tables on the internet at http://www.census.gov/govs/www/index.html.
Public Pension Plan Membership Tops Fifteen Million
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