“Fifth‑highest price in the nation is a sign that New York’s energy policy is not working,” said Zilvinas Silenas, president of the Empire Center. “Since 2019, New York has ranked among the top 10 ...

A new statewide poll released by the Empire Center this month gives Albany a clear, if unwelcome, message: New Yorkers will ...

New Yorkers are dissatisfied with New York’s litigation environment and broadly favor changes to the state’s liability laws. Voters overwhelmingly support reforms that align legal outcomes more ...

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Long Island may be New York's strongest case that money matters in education — and also its strongest warning that, past a certain point, more money is not the answer. Long Island is widely regarded ...

In 2030, New York may begin a policy of forcing New York families to use electricity for home heating instead of fuels like heating oil, propane and natural gas. Homeowners whose furnaces fail in ...

Individual public employee pay records for each year starting in 2008-09 can be found at the Empire Center’s transparency website, SeeThroughNY.net. For the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, the site ...

The tragic impact of the coronavirus pandemic in New York’s nursing homes has revived debate about how the industry operates, including how it handles the Medicaid and Medicare money that makes up the ...

Public elementary and secondary school spending in New York rose to $26,571 per pupil in 2020-21, according to the latest Census Bureau data—setting a new record high even as pupil performance was ...

The largest revenue-raiser in the just-completed state budget, worth $2 billion over four years, is not a tax or a fee or even a legal settlement. It takes the form of semi-voluntary “grants” squeezed ...

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)’s payroll jumped $663 million, or 9 percent, last year to its highest-ever level as overtime spending ticked up to a new record and subsidiaries dished ...

Richard Ellenbogen was an early adopter of renewable and lower-emission combustion technology, deploying them at both his home and his business in Westchester County. Ellenbogen, a Cornell-trained ...