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  2. Palestinian Information Center - Wikipedia

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    URL. english .palinfo .com. Commercial. No. Launched. 1 January 1998. Current status. active. The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) ( Arabic: المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام) is a Hamas-affiliated Palestinian news website and network that was established first in Arabic on 1 December 1997 and later in English on 1 January 1998.

  3. Public employee pension plans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Public employee pension plans in the United States. In the United States, public sector pensions are offered at the federal, state, and local levels of government. They are available to most, but not all, public sector employees. These employer contributions to these plans typically vest after some period of time, e.g. 5 years of service.

  4. List of largest pension schemes in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This list of largest pension funds in the United States involves two main groups: government pension funds for public employees and collectively bargained pension funds, jointly managed between employer and employee representatives after the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.

  5. Congressional pension - Wikipedia

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    Congressional pension is a pension made available to members of the United States Congress. As of 2019, members who participated in the congressional pension system are vested after five years of service. A pension is available to members 62 years of age with 5 years of service; 50 years or older with 20 years of service; or 25 years of service ...

  6. Mercer (consulting firm) - Wikipedia

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    5,021,000,000 United States dollar (2019) Number of employees. 25,000 (2019) Parent. Marsh McLennan. Mercer is an American consulting firm founded in 1945. It is one of the four operating subsidiaries of global professional services firm Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC). Mercer is headquartered in New York City with offices in 43 countries and ...

  7. Pension spiking - Wikipedia

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    Pension spiking. Pension spiking, sometimes referred to as "salary spiking", [1] is the process whereby public sector employees are granted large raises, bonuses, incentives or otherwise artificially inflate their compensation in the time immediately preceding retirement in order to receive larger pensions than they otherwise would be entitled ...

  8. Unemployment insurance in the United States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Unemployment insurance in the United States, colloquially referred to as unemployment benefits, refers to social insurance programs which replace a portion of wages for individuals during unemployment. The first unemployment insurance program in the U.S. was created in Wisconsin in 1932, and the federal Social Security Act of 1935 created ...

  9. Massachusetts State Police - Wikipedia

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    The MSP was established by Massachusetts state governor John A. Andrew when he signed a law creating the State Constabulary on May 16, 1865. This legislative act to "establish a State Police Force", founded the first statewide enforcement agency in the nation. The first leader of the State Police was William Sterling King, an American officer ...