From many perspectives, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or ERISA, has been a success.

A relatively uniform body of law has developed to govern pension and welfare plans from California to Camden and Miami to Minneapolis.

Although not always a perfect fit, ERISA has even managed to keep up with the utterly massive shift from defined benefit pension plans to defined contribution 401(k) plans.

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