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In her State of the State address this week, Governor Hochul prominently called for a $10 billion "multi-year investment" in the state's health care system, including $4 billion earmarked for wages and bonuses, with a Read More

The Empire Center for Public Policy offered the following reactions to Governor Hochul’s first State of the State address. Read More

In her first State of the State message today, Governor Kathy Hochul pledged to accelerate scheduled personal income tax cuts for "middle class" New Yorkers, with a fiscal impact she pegged at $1.2 billion. That figure sounds large but doesn't amo Read More

Albany, NY — New York suffered a net loss of about 1.4 million residents to other states during the past decade. With those residents went businesses and jobs, perpetuating a cycle of loss for the Empire State. “The State of Read More

Hochul should “ring out the old” by appointing a subsidy board that will shelve the prevailing-wage expansion Read More

A whole lot of people moved out of New York state after last year’s COVID-19 outbreak and government-imposed lockdown restrictions. Read More

Thanks mainly to a pandemic-driven boost in its already high outflows to other states, New York has just suffered its largest single-year population loss ever—and the worst, in percentage terms, of any state in the p Read More

New York can have 100 percent zero emissions electricity in 2040. But it can’t have enough of it to keep the lights and the heat on. Read More