Press Releases

The New York State Attorney General’s office is being asked to hand over the details behind its apparent leak of a national non-profit’s sensitive financial documents Read More

The number of educators receiving six-figure salaries has increased by fifty percent in the last ten years. Read More

The legality and appropriateness of the New York State Education Department’s attempt to delay access to important student performance metrics is being challenged in a formal appeal of an Empire Center Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request Read More

Nearly 70 percent  of  of last year’s 470 retirees from the City of New York’s Fire Department (FDNY) were eligible for six-figure pensions Read More

The number of New York State and Local Retirement System (NYSLRS) retirees eligible for six-figure pensions quadrupled over the last seven years. Read More

The Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA) threatens to do far more harm than good to New York’s energy landscape Read More

New York can increase its use of renewable energy and reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions, but it cannot do so cheaply or safely. Read More

Today, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that she is issuing an RFP for a review of the state's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic Read More

The Empire Center is expanding its research operations with the addition of three research fellows. Read More

A total of $68 million in grant awards was steered to 276 local projects between November 2021 and March 2022 by the Dormitory Authority of the State of New York Read More

ALBANY, NY — 2021 for 82,513 New York public authority employees working at 320 different agencies is newly posted on , the Empire Center’s transparency website. The site now contains 2021 payroll data for a total of 172,947 Read More

New York's nursing home operators are increasingly outsourcing expenses to separate companies that they also own or control. Read More