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Thanks for bringing up the total compensation aspect of teachers' pay.

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"So teachers really got large raises in the form of their more valuable pension."

That is what my wife calls "ifcome".

Pensions are a long term commitment. What will the interest rates be in thirty years?

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Great column. Pensions are great, until they are not. Pensions do carry catastrophic risk. Some of them fail completely.

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