{"id":29080,"date":"2011-11-01T18:01:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/south_carolina_teachers_state_workers_would_pay_more_for_retirement_at_a_co\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T18:01:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T18:01:21","slug":"south_carolina_teachers_state_workers_would_pay_more_for_retirement_at_a_co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29080","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Teachers, state workers would pay more for retirement \u201d\u201d at a cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina\u2019s teachers and state employees are willing to pay more to fix the retirement system \u201d\u201d but only if they get a raise first.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the plan endorsed by the S.C. State Employees Association and the S.C. Education Association, which together represent 30,000 of the state\u2019s 141,000 teachers and state employees.<\/p>\n<p>The plan, which the groups submitted in writing to House and Senate subcommittees studying the retirement system, says teachers and state employees are willing to increase their contribution to the retirement system by 0.5 percent, but only if they receive at least a 2 percent raise \u201d\u201d a \u201ccost-of-living adjustment\u201d\u009d for state employees and a \u201cstep increase\u201d\u009d for teachers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2011\/11\/01\/2030386\/teachers-state-workers-would-pay.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina\u2019s teachers and state employees are willing to pay more to fix the retirement system \u201d\u201d but only if they get a raise first. That\u2019s the plan endorsed by the S.C. State Employees Association and the S.C. Education Association,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29080\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,54,149,111,597,662,593,151,619,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-economy","category-education","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-pensions","category-personal-finance","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}