Social Security for retirement was funded by the government and the employers.
the workers only.
the employers only.
the workers and the employers.

the government and the employers

there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.

because this was the year that the state of israel was formed