Twenty-four Percent Increase in Six-Figure Pensions at NYCERS
A total of $5.2 billion in pension payments were made in calendar year 2021 to 152,000 members of the New York City Employees’ Retirement System (NYCERS) Read More
Press Room
Press Releases
New York On Track to Experience Energy Deficits of Ten Percent or More
- May 3, 2022
The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) places New York communities at risk of devastating blackouts due to insufficient electricity levels Read More
Average Pay Spiked at Port Authority in 2021
- April 29, 2022
Average pay for Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) employees increased nearly 10 percent last year, to $123,000. Read More
Empire Center Submits Non-Gerrymandered Maps for Consideration
- April 28, 2022
After the New York State Court of Appeals declared both the congressional and senate maps void, the Empire Center for Public Policy is submitting its set of maps Read More
Over 700 MTA Employees Earned More in OT than Regular Pay in 2021, Data Show
- April 22, 2022
More than 300 employees were paid at least $100,000 in overtime and at least 734 earned more in overtime than in regular pay at the MTA last year Read More
Commentary
What constitutes price gouging? It’s complicated
- May 23, 2022
Chazy Hardware had only one electric generator in stock when a 1998 ice storm left much of northern New York state without power for days. The store's owners found more in Vermont and resold them for a premium to cover its extra costs, little knowing Read More
New York’s climate plan will cost hundreds of billions —and Albany is trying to hide it
- May 18, 2022
Public Service Commissioner John Howard recently warned that the state’s climate-action scheme will cost New Yorkers “hundreds of billions of dollars” Read More
Pathetic New York pols fail again to deliver gerrymander-free maps
- April 27, 2022
For the second consecutive time, a court-appointed special master will handle New York’s congressional redistricting. Read More
Hochul’s first budget rewards unions at taxpayers’ expense — and sets the state on the road to insolvency
- April 11, 2022
New Yorkers are aghast that the Buffalo Bills stadium deal, which will fill the pockets of a wealthy NFL team owner with their tax dollars, is in the state budget the Legislature just adopted. Read More
Albany returns to the bad, old stinky ways of passing a budget
- April 8, 2022
For 20 straight years, the New York state budget was late — stretching well past the April 1 deadline, sometimes even into summer or fall. That streak was broken in 2011. It was then that lawmakers in Albany assured New Yorkers that the days of thr Read More
Testimony
Bill Hammond: Testimony to the Senate Aging Committee
- May 3, 2022
Presented to the Senate Aging Committee May 3, 2022 Read More
James Hanley: Written Testimony to the Climate Action Council
- April 14, 2022
James Hanley addresses the costs and benefits of the CLCPA, and the growing risk to resource reliability on the New York electrical grid. Read More
Peter Warren: Written Testimony to the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committees
- February 16, 2022
Presented to the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committees February 16, 2022 Governor Hochul’s budget plan is buoyed by a revenue surge attributable Read More
Bill Hammond: Written Testimony to the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committees
- February 7, 2022
Presented to the J Read More
James E. Hanley: Written testimony to the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committees
- February 1, 2022
Governor Hochul’s budget proposal is surprisingly quiet about New York’s most far-reaching and expensive public policy, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act Read More
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