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Visualizing U.S. Union Membership, 1983-2018
by meep
This relates to digging into details on bailing out and reforming multiemployer pension plans.
One of the biggest issues is that unionization has dropped, and that means pension plans that were designed assuming growing membership over time has made those particular systems fragile.
Basic unionization data can be gotten here, and...
Visualizations of Public Pension Fundedness and Why Fundedness is Decreasing
by meep
I saw that the Public Plans Database folks had a new paper out:
The update’s key findings are:
The funded ratio of state and local pensions edged up to 73 percent in FY 2018, but has been largely flat for several years and is well below its peak in 2001.
Liability growth...
Mortality with Meep: Guessing at Trends
by meep
Someone on facebook linked to the Storyline site, and I’ve really enjoyed it.
The concept is very simple — there’s a time series of some sort, based on historical data — generally, there are points for every decade, or maybe every five years. You are given one point on...
Geeking Out: Improving Public Pension Dataviz
by meep
This piece was brought to my attention:
Not All Cities Have A Pension Problem
The Top 21% of Cities With High Pension Funding Levels Deserve Attention and Usually Praise
With so much well-deserved negative attention focused on cities with huge unfunded pension overhangs, it’s probably a good time to draw attention...
An Ugly Interest Rate Environment and Public Pensions Chasing Returns
by meep
The Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee (FOMC) had a meeting this past week, and the reactions have been ugly.
This is what I mean by ugly: a yield curve inversion.
The x-axis is years, and the y-axis is the percent rate.
What that graph shows is that the 1-month to...
Bye Bye 2018 - And the 80 Percent Funding Myth Persists
by meep
Ugh. What a year. I’m beat.
It also doesn’t help that I just slogged through the end of War and Peace (because I had to get it done by 6am this morning when the audiobook was going poof).
One of the things that was a positive for 2018 is that...
Checking the Numbers: How Much are Social Security Benefits?
by meep
No, I’m not addressing the affordability of the program, etc.
I’m looking at: how much are people actually paid in Social Security benefits
Luckily, the Office of the Chief Actuary of the Social Security Administration has lots of information so we can get a good idea. I went here, clicked through...
Mornings with Meep: Data Visualization
by meep
I review three books on data visualization, and try out a couple visualizations using some of the ideas from the first book, Storytelling with Data.Alternative Assets and Pension Performance: A Dive into Data
by meep
As promised in a prior post, I’m going to be digging into the many dimensions that drive public pension deteriorating status.
I have a news hook for this:
Pennsylvania’s $30 billion state pension fund...
New Project(s): Re-visualizing the Public Pension Database
by meep
I’ve taken the data from the Public Pension Database and put it on kaggle – while I hope this will get a few other people dipping into this data, it’s more that I can put together some notebooks that others can get and look at….using tools a bit cooler...
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