AKs 4 Sustainable BudgetsDec 27
Using PFD cuts - the "most regressive tax ever proposed" - to fill deficits is not "fiscally conservative"; it's plutocratic. By targeting #WorkingAge and #WorkingAKfams, it contributes to #Outmigration compared to lower-impact revenue alts. #akleg https://alaskalandmine.com/landmines/brad-keithleys-chart-of-the-week-alaskas-outmigration-death-spiral/
Centre for Population ChangeNov 24

CG Co-Director Melinda Mills spoke at The #Fiduciary #Investors Symposium, warning that a shrinking #European #population will trigger significant changes in #economic growth & #investor opportunities.

Read the full write-up of her talk:
https://www.top1000funds.com/2025/11/investors-wrestle-with-europes-demographic-timebomb/

#investment #investmentopportunities #retirement #retirementfunds #investmentfunds #pensionfunds #pensions #workingage #populationdecline #demography #demographictimebomb #socialscience #economics #economy #pension

AKs 4 Sustainable BudgetsJan 13, 2025
Giessel/Kopp want to spend more money. The question they avoid & the media doesn't ask is #WhoPays. Do we push even more regressively down on the very group - #WorkingAge middle & lower-income #AKfams - that already are leaving the state? #akleg https://buff.ly/4jsbVDV
Retirement reform reintroduced ahead of legislative session, topping agendas in House and Senate

Legislation proposed by Sen. Cathy Giessel could grant Alaska’s public sector workers guaranteed pensions for the first time since 2006.

Anchorage Daily News
AutisticMumTo3Jun 13, 2024

Tory welfare reform cost working-age families thousands while pensioners benefited – report | Benefits | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/13/tory-welfare-reform-cost-working-age-families-thousands-while-pensioners-benefited-report

#Benefits
#Pensions
#WorkingAge
#Pensioners
#Tories

Tory welfare reform cost working-age families thousands while pensioners benefited – report

Retirees or those on disability benefit are biggest annual winners, while large families are £4,600 worse off, says Resolution Foundation

The Guardian