By E.J. McMahon, includes “New York taxpayers have been hit with enormous increases in pension costs for state and local government employees over the past 20 years. … New York’s pension bomb had already exploded a dozen years ago when state officials belatedly started responding to the problem by scaling back pension entitlements for newly hired employees. … Approaching the 10th anniversary of Tier 6, this report looks back on what New York’s pension reforms accomplished—and failed to accomplish …”