The Empire Center today released “Checklist for Change,” a 36-page summary of reforms needed to promote renewed economic growth and competitiveness for New York State. Read More
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The city of New York has been ordered to pay the legal costs and fees to the Empire Center for Public Policy in connection with the Center’s successful effort to obtain city payroll data under the state Freedom of Information Law (FOIL). Read More
When it comes to soaking the rich to pad the state budget, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie won't be outdone by Governor Andrew Cuomo's "millionaire tax." Read More
As the Legislature weighs Governor Cuomo's proposed budget for the fiscal year starting April 1, New York's leading index of business cycle indicators is flashing bright yellow. The Labor Department reports that its Index of Coincident Economic Indicators (ICEI) dropped in December at a 2.6 percent annual rate. It was the fourth consecutive month in which the Index has dropped. Read More
The Cuomo administration’s newly proposed ban on insurance copayments for birth control and abortion sets troubling precedents that should concern all New Yorkers, regardless of their views on reproductive rights. Read More
Halfway through his second term as New York’s chief executive, Gov. Cuomo could be approaching a fiscal turning point. Read More
The biggest-ticket revenue action in Governor Cuomo’s budget proposal was not extending the so-called millionaire tax, but renewing the Health Care Reform Act, which imposes a hidden tax on New Yorkers of all incomes. Read More
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last month that a possible extension of New York's temporary 29 percent surtax on the incomes of million-dollar earners would hinge on one question: "how much money do you need?" Read More