Reason Foundation Issues Commentary: No, New York Doesn't Have a Public Employee Recruitment and Retention Crisis
May 16, 2026
May 16, 2026
LOS ANGELES, California, May 16 -- The Reason Foundation issued the following commentary by Managing Director of Government Finance Mariana Trujillo:
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No, New York doesn't have a public employee recruitment and retention crisis
The state's 2012 pension reform saved its taxpayers $80 billion. Supporters of a rollback point to a recruitment problem--but the data show there isn't one.
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New York's unions have . . .
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No, New York doesn't have a public employee recruitment and retention crisis
The state's 2012 pension reform saved its taxpayers $80 billion. Supporters of a rollback point to a recruitment problem--but the data show there isn't one.
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New York's unions have . . .