Category: Media Coverage

It pays to work for the Port Authority -- big time. The average salary at the bistate agency hit $90,000 last year -- more than $30,000 above the average salary for private-sector workers in the city -- according to a new analysis by the conservative Read More

The MTA is paying out more money to fewer employees, according to a study released yesterday. Despite shedding 3,500, the transit agency's payroll increased by $71 million from 2009 to 2010 -- a 1.4 percent jump following the loss of 1.1 percent o Read More

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Wednesday vetoed a bill that would have let school districts borrow more than $1 billion to help cover escalating pension costs. Critics had called the bill a sneaky way for districts to circumvent the governor's ballyhooed property Read More

New York's Common Retirement Fund has grown to $146.5 billion, its highest point since markets crashed in 2008, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said. The fund, which provides benefits for more than a million state and municipal employees and retire Read More