New York’s public schools lost almost 60,000 students — 2.38 percent of their total student population —in the past year alone Read More
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The health-care agenda laid out by Governor Hochul in her budget proposal this week leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Here are a few of them. Read More
Activists want total control over every building in the state. How much will this add to the costs of new homes and commercial properties as developers scramble to make last-minute changes? Read More
Anyone following New York’s redistricting process knows it is desperately behind schedule and hopelessly caught up in political squabbling. Read More
The Empire Center for Public Policy offered the following reactions to the proposed 2022 State Budget. Read More
The Empire Center for Public Policy has created its own set of maps for New York’s congressional, senate and assembly districts. Read More
The State of the State is the prelude to Hochul’s state budget reveal. It’s a budget that represents a generational opportunity. Read More
A puzzling pattern has emerged from New York's latest wave of the pandemic: Downstate hospitals are dealing with the lion's share of COVID patients, but upstate hospitals are the ones running out of beds. The parado Read More