Press Releases

After State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett announced her departure, Empire Center's Bill Hammond issued the following statement. Read More

New York’s Medicaid program spends roughly $12 billion per year on in-home “personal care” for the elderly and disabled. Read More

Federal and state assistance would pay for only about 10 percent of the state’s total effort to electrify its entire school bus fleet, according to a new Empire Center research paper. Read More

After petitioning for the release of ELA and math exam data for students in grades 3-8, the Empire Center has published the results. Read More

The New York State Education Department missed a Freedom of Information Law deadline to disclose statewide test results. Read More

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