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In this Thursday, May 1, 2014 photo, Website designer Dorry Clay, works on her laptop at her home in Stonington, Conn. Clay, who has battled cancer and the effects of the recession, is urging Connecticut lawmakers to enact legislation establishing a state-run pension plan accessible to most workers. Lawmakers in Connecticut and other states are responding to a widespread loss of private-sector pensions, a lack of access to employer-sponsored retirement accounts in smaller businesses and stagnant incomes that make it hard for workers to contribute to their own retirement plan or company account. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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In this Thursday, May 1, 2014 photo, Website designer Dorry Clay, works on her laptop at her home in Stonington, Conn. Clay, who has battled cancer and the effects of the recession, is urging Connecticut lawmakers to enact legislation establishing a state-run pension plan accessible to most workers. Lawmakers in Connecticut and other states are responding to a widespread loss of private-sector pensions, a lack of access to employer-sponsored retirement accounts in smaller businesses and stagnant incomes that make it hard for workers to contribute to their own retirement plan or company account. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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In this Thursday, May 1, 2014 photo, Lou Tashash, owner and president of R-D Manufacturing Inc., left, watches break operator Scott Finlayson work at his precision sheet manufacturing business in East Lyme, Conn. Tashash, who employs 14 workers, is lobbying legislators to kill a measure to establish a state-run pension plan, which he sees as a burdensome mandate. Lawmakers in Connecticut and other states are responding to a widespread loss of private-sector pensions, a lack of access to employer-sponsored retirement accounts in smaller businesses and stagnant incomes that make it hard for workers to contribute to their own retirement plan or company account. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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In this Thursday, May 1, 2014 photo, Lou Tashash, owner and president of R-D Manufacturing Inc., left, watches painter Francisco Mirlas powder-coat metal at his precision sheet manufacturing business in East Lyme, Conn. Tashash, who employs 14 workers, is lobbying legislators to kill a measure to establish a state-run pension plan, which he sees as a burdensome mandate. Lawmakers in Connecticut and other states are responding to a widespread loss of private-sector pensions, a lack of access to employer-sponsored retirement accounts in smaller businesses and stagnant incomes that make it hard for workers to contribute to their own retirement plan or company account. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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In this April 28, 2014 photo, a student walks through the Hallene Gateway, a landmark on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana, Ill. Public universities in Illinois are bracing for waves or retirements because a state pension-reform law will sharply cut their retirement funds. (AP Photo/David Mercer)
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In this April 28, 2014 photo, Students walk past the Alma Mater statue, a landmark on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana, Ill. Public universities in Illinois are bracing for waves or retirements because a state pension-reform law will sharply cut their retirement funds. (AP Photo/David Mercer)
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In this April 28, 2014 photo, David Cahill, the head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois, poses in a lab in the department's building in Urbana, Ill. Cahill is among many faculty and staff members on public university campuses in Illinois considering leaving after discovering that state pension reform will sharply cut their retirement funds. (AP Photo/David Mercer)
