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    • State Fact Sheet

    Apr 13, 2018

    Diane Oakley, Jennifer Erin Brown MS JD LLM

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    In partnership with NRTA: AARP’s Educator Community, NIRS has developed a series of state-by-state infographic fact sheets regarding the public employee and teacher retirement systems across the country.

    These fact sheets present a snapshot of these retirement systems along with key data from NIRS research and other sources.

    We invite you to learn more about each state by visiting this map to download each state’s fact sheets.

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