ED MN Retired TRA Column December 25, 2020 Martha Lee (Marti) Zins, chair TRA
The word “pension” engenders in teachers retirement security after a lifetime commitment to educating students. Unfortunately to many non-educators, it engenders rage that “teachers feed off the public trough” and why do they, teachers, have pensions while almost no one but public employees have these. Pension envy is another way to describe this phenomenon.
At our national conference on pensions, held virtually in October, this very issue was discussed. There is a clear lack of