Tag: Rhode Island
A decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, about one out of every five Texans under age 65 still do not have health insurance. Georgia, Oklahoma and Florida are close behind. The contrast with Hawaii, Minnesota, Michigan, and New Hampshire is stark – only about one in 20 of their residents lacked insuranc…
Evidence from Rhode Island says “yes.” The Center for Retirement Research just published a brief on how state public sector workers respond to a cut in their future pension benefits, using wonderful data obtained from the state of Rhode Island. The results show that benefit cuts encourage government workers to leave their jobs, but that…
