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• NY Fiscal Watch

  October 06, 2008

• The NY Impact of McCain, Obama Tax Plans

  September 19, 2008

• Empire Center Launches Transparency Website

  New Yorkers will get a clearer view than ever of how their state and local tax dollars are being spent, thanks to a new transparency website launched today by the Empire Center for New York State Policy.

  July 31, 2008

• Separating Fact from Fear Mongering on the "Rich Tax"

  by E.J. McMahon

  March 26, 2008

• Parsing the "Q-Poll" on Taxes

  by E.J. McMahon

  March 24, 2008

• Silver Changing Tune on Tax Cap?

  February 26, 2008

• Survey Finds Tax Cap Has Strong Public Support

  January 21, 2008

• State Pension Costs Continue To Climb

  October 04, 2007

• New Yorkers On the Move

  September 24, 2007

• Personal Income Drops in NY in Second Quarter

  September 20, 2007

• No News is Bad News: NY Counties Still Among Most Heavily Taxed

  September 12, 2007

• Spitzer's Intriguing Tax Cap Hint

  August 29, 2007

• Skyrocketing MedMal Rates Send a Message

  July 03, 2007

• State Highway System Among Nation's Worst, Study Says

  June 29, 2007

• NY Is Tops in School Spending

  May 24, 2007

• Total NY Tax Burden at Record Level

  May 20, 2007

• "Professionalizing" Grandma? Spitzer Moves to Unionize Home Day Care

  May 17, 2007

• A Look at Spitzer's Top Education Aide

  April 18, 2007

• Testimony: The Case for Capping Property Taxes

  April 17, 2007

• Albany Oink, '07-08 Edition

  April 10, 2007

• How, Why and For Whom the Property Tax Rebate is Taxable

  April 05, 2007

• Spitzer's Budget

  How the "New Paradigm" Adds Up for New York Taxpayers

  April 03, 2007

• Wall Street Pushes Up NY Incomes

  March 29, 2007

• Budget Deal Boosts Spending Further

  March 28, 2007

• Holding New York's Public Schools Accountable

  March 05, 2007

• A Grade Above: The Facts on Teacher Pay

  February 27, 2007

• NY Medicaid Costs for Elderly Outpacing Other States

  February 15, 2007

• Spitzer's Paradigm-Shifting Health Policy Premise

  January 26, 2007

• New Yorkers Shipping Out, Report Shows

  January 09, 2007

• The "$6 billion Tax Cut" That Gov. Spitzer Isn't (Quite) Proposing

  January 08, 2007

• New Yorkers Still Heading for the Exits

  January 02, 2007

• Berger Commission's Cut Barely Skin Deep

  November 28, 2006

• Lawmaker Salaries By State

  November 27, 2006

• Welfare Reform Turns 10

  October 12, 2006

• Forum Identifies Ways to Improve Health Care

  September 27, 2006

• New York Low on Economic Freedom: Study

  September 26, 2006

• New York's Fiscal Time Bomb

  September 21, 2006

• State's Public Sector Grows to Record Level

  September 03, 2006

• Public Pension System Sweetened Again

  July 18, 2006

• Legislature hands unions new weapons

  June 21, 2006

• Study: Lawsuits Drive NY's High MedMal Premiums

  June 01, 2006

• Merger Could Take Bite Out of Big Apple

  May 25, 2006

• Rocky-Era Spending Returns to New York

  May 17, 2006

• SPECIAL FEATURE: Links to "member item" lists

  April 05, 2006

• A peep-hole into New York's pork barrel

  April 03, 2006

• Sprinkling more STAR-Dust on School Taxes

  March 23, 2006

• Higher taxes are the last thing we need

  March 11, 2006

• NY gains jobs, but still trails rest of U.S.

  March 08, 2006

• The Potential Value of NY's Racing "Trifecta"

  February 27, 2006

• Report Highlights Budget Trends Under Pataki

  February 24, 2006

• But remember: It's all for the kids

  February 10, 2006

• Will the Wall Street Goose Keep Laying Golden Eggs?

  February 06, 2006

• Spend Now, Cut Taxes Later

  January 17, 2006

• The Transit Strike's Broader Implications

  December 27, 2005

• Political Gas Pains

  September 06, 2005

• Towards Better Special Education for New York

  September 01, 2005

• Bond Deal Goes Forward

  August 03, 2005

• Bold and Sweeping Medicaid Reform

  August 02, 2005

• Seeking More Secure Perks for Government Workers

  July 26, 2005

• Comptroller Blocks "Back-Door" Bond deal

  July 21, 2005

• Legislators Keep Pushing Sweeter Pension Benefit Proposals

  July 14, 2005

• Eminent Domain Backlash in Central NY

  July 08, 2005

• Out of Sight: Health Insurance in Gotham

  July 07, 2005

• Private Property and "Public Use" in NY

  June 27, 2005

• Empire State's Economic Picture: Mixed

  June 24, 2005

• Saving Tax Dollars Through Competition

  June 21, 2005

• Forum to Explore Fresh Thinking on CFE

  June 14, 2005

• The Biggest Public Pension Investment Policy Shift You've Probably Never Heard Of

  June 13, 2005

• Take this bill -- please!

  June 03, 2005

• Stopping the Health Care Bleeding in NY

  May 25, 2005

• Many LIers Still Sour on School Budgets

  May 18, 2005

• Coming Events: Albany Forum on Consumer-Driven Health Care

  May 17, 2005

• NY Manufacturers: Conditions Deteriorating

  May 16, 2005

• School Taxes Skyward

  May 12, 2005

• Happy Days Are Here Again?

  May 06, 2005

• Budget "Reform" Moves to Ballot

  May 04, 2005

• More Money = Lousy Results

  May 02, 2005

• Shuffle Off to ... West Virginia?

  April 29, 2005

• It's Alive

  April 19, 2005

• Higher and Higher

  April 13, 2005

• Another Middle-class Tax

  April 11, 2005

• Saving Transit $$$

  March 30, 2005

• Getting More Bang for CFE Bucks

  March 08, 2005

• Unequal Impacts

  March 01, 2005

• The Perils of Hiking the PIT

  February 16, 2005