Legislative Staff Can’t Unionize: Report
New York’s legislative employees are not eligible to unionize under the state’s sweeping public-sector collective bargaining law. Read More
Press Room
Press Releases
Statement on the announced departure of New York State Health Commissioner Mary T. Bassett
- December 2, 2022
After State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett announced her departure, Empire Center's Bill Hammond issued the following statement. Read More
Personal Care Spending Eight Times Higher in New York Than National Average, New Report Shows
- November 14, 2022
New York’s Medicaid program spends roughly $12 billion per year on in-home “personal care” for the elderly and disabled. Read More
School Districts Must Cover Majority of Bus Electrification Costs
- November 4, 2022
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
Empire Center Makes State Exam Results Publicly Accessible
- October 26, 2022
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
Commentary
Big Labor’s next target: Grad schools
- November 21, 2022
Christakis remarked on the website that graduate students, now moving to unionize at the school, are not ordinary worker. Read More
$11 billion was stolen from taxpayers in a massive fraud — will officials just ignore it?
- November 17, 2022
If a government agency loses $11 billion, do New York’s legislators make a sound? That’s the question in Albany after Comptroller Tom DiNapoli issued his investigation into what was likely the most expensive administrative mishap in state hist Read More
New Yorkers deserve more clarity on donor leak
- November 6, 2022
There’s been a lot of discussion about crime in the race for New York’s attorney general — but not the violation of law committed at the attorney general’s office earlier this year. Read More
LIPA commission is already a fiasco
- October 11, 2022
If it’s not yet a failure, the commission to revamp the Long Island Power Authority is at least already a fiasco. Read More
Once Again, New York is Sticking it to Religious Schools
- October 7, 2022
New York bureaucrats are ditching standards for what children in public schools should learn. Why are they increasing their imposition on yeshivas? Read More
Testimony
Submitted Testimony: “The Role of State Authorities in Renewable Energy Development”
- July 28, 2022
The Build Public Renewables Act will expand the New York Power Authority and bind it to an agenda that undermines an effective market. Read More
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
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