When CalPERS sought to illustrate the impacts that a secure and dignified retirement for public employees brings to California communities at large, the CEO reached out to Lincoln Crow to help him. Lincoln Crow recruited a research team to study the economic impacts of retirement benefit payments. We then crafted a strategy to share the results of that research with key community opinion leaders and the news media.
The Benefits Research Group grew out of this initial study and has become an effective team of researchers and communicators that has worked with California’s largest and smallest public pension funds to analyze the impact of a variety of benefits on the economy of California.