Erin Morrow Hawley, Author at Show-Me Institute https://showmeinstitute.org Where Liberty Comes First Fri, 01 May 2026 15:10:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://showmeinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/show-me-icon-150x150.png Erin Morrow Hawley, Author at Show-Me Institute https://showmeinstitute.org 32 32 Pension Reform in Missouri https://showmeinstitute.org/publication/taxes/pension-reform-in-missouri/ Tue, 31 Mar 2015 05:11:22 +0000 http://showmeinstitute.local/publications/pension-reform-in-missouri/ Missouri’s public pension plans are an important component of state employment. These plans contribute to the retirement security of state employees and influence who enters public service and how long […]

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]]> Missouri’s public pension plans are an important component of state employment. These plans contribute to the retirement security of state employees and influence who enters public service and how long they remain. They also are critically underfunded. As of 2013, national research shows that state defined benefit public pension plans are underfunded by approximately $4.1 trillion. On average, state pension plans are only 39 percent funded.

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