Putting Pension Costs in Context: How Corporate Tax Breaks are Diverting State Revenue Needed for Public Employees’ Retirement (Part II)

April 2020

The second part of this report looks at seven states that are putting corporate welfare before pension security for public employees. $7 billion was spent on corporate subsidies and tax breaks in Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, South Carolina, Texas, and Vermont in FY2018/2019. Less than half of that amount would have covered the states’ pension system contributions.


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Illinois (published March 2021)