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Median Pay Levels in NY Schools
Staff salaries are the dominant category of spending in public school budgets across the state. And the largest item within that category is teacher salaries, which consistently rank among the highest....
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NY’s Demographic Doldrums
New York has lost nearly 1.4 million residents to the rest of the country since 2010—and largely as a result of this outflow, the Empire State’s total population barely budged during the decade, a....
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Busting the cap
The budget crisis in New York’s Medicaid program stems from the failure of a key cost-control measure adopted during Governor Cuomo’s first term. In 2011, Cuomo and the Legislature imposed a “gl....
The MTA Transparency Story
The Empire Center's annual release of Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) payroll data on the SeeThroughNY transparency website made an especially big splash this year.
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View AllCounties’ Medicaid role dwindles
New enrollment numbers confirm a Medicaid trend relevant to budget talks in Albany: Local governments are playing a smaller role than ever.
