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How is New York’s health insurance market weathering the Affordable Care Act crosswinds? Relatively well in some respects and poorly in others. Read More

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has just issued a report confirming what employment statistics have been showing: upstate New York's economy has lagged behind the nation and downstate regions for years now. Read More

Governor Andrew Cuomo’s new Clean Energy Standard is shaping up to be one of the largest tax hikes in state history. Read More

At the mid-summer mark, the private sector in upstate New York was still struggling to produce net employment gains, according to the state Labor Department's latest monthly report. Read More

New York State's low-cost Essential Plan is taking a big bite out of the state's market for private health insurance, newly released data show. Read More

New York's largest public pension fund earned 2 percent in its first fiscal quarter—which isn't necessarily good or bad news for taxpayers. Read More

By going along with double-digit premium hikes for individual-market health plans, the state is loosening handcuffs that should not exist. Read More

Taxpayer-funded pension contributions in New York City will need to increase by a total of $732 million between fiscal years 2018 and 2020 due to the pension funds' paltry investment earnings in the recently concluded 2016 fiscal year, City Comptroller Scott Stringer has just disclosed. Read More

New York’s hospitals collectively rank dead last among the 50 states in a new report card from the federal government, an Empire Center analysis shows. Read More

Here’s a puzzling statistic: Recipients enrolled in Medicaid managed care plans use emergency rooms more often, not less, than those in the old-style “fee for service” program. Read More

A study charges that Medicaid managed care plans are systematically denying care to elderly and disabled shut-ins. While the report raises concerns, its findings do not warrant abandoning an important reform effort. Read More

Upstate New York's largest metro areas experienced little or no job growth during the year ending in June, according to the latest state Labor Department employment report. Read More