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Compare your property taxes
Residents of the Mid-Hudson village of Liberty had the highest effective property tax rate in New York (outside New York City and Nassau) during fiscal year 2019, according to the newest edition of B....
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Excelsior Scholarship “Illusion” Inferior to TAP, Report Says
NY's Excelsior Scholarship program is crudely designed, regressive and wasteful.
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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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NYTorch Blog
View All“LIFO” strikes again
The fiscally distressed Rochester City School District is moving to lay off 152 teachers, but there’s little doubt which educators are on the chopping block.
