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Mississippi lawmakers send bill making changes to public employees' retirement system to governor

This is the cleaner near-term PERS signal than abstract liability talk: lawmakers sent a rollback-and-repair package to Reeves, tying retirement rules, teacher retention, and the broader tax-and-budget tradeoff fight back into the governor-race governing lane.

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  • Tate Reeves Context only · Incumbent governor · Republican
  • Delbert Hosemann Credible contender · Lieutenant governor · Republican
  • Jason White Credible contender · House speaker · Republican

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