english: In fact, even workers who retired with the maximum 80 percent replacement rate in recent decades, after the 3 percent COLA began exceeding actual inflation, would never have received a pension larger in inflation-adjusted terms than they earned when working, or than earnings of current employees with the same jobs and experience (author’s analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI data).3
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