2022-23 School Pay Records Added to SeeThroughNY
The data, covering all school districts outside NYC, show 75,280 school district employees were paid at least $100,000 last year, compared to 58,631 in 2017-18. Read More
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Press Releases
Public Authority Payrolls Updated on SeeThroughNY
- November 28, 2023
Payroll data detailing $6 billion in annual pay for more than 86,000 public employees at 383 agencies including the Thruway Authority, New York City Health + Hospitals and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) were added today to SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s government transparency website. Read More
Snips, Strikes and Skaters: NY Borrows To Cover Its Pork Habit
- November 22, 2023
New York state lawmakers and Governor Hochul since January have steered nearly $200 million in borrowed state funds outside the regular budget process to hundreds of pet projects, according to new data posted on SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s government transparency website. Read More
Port Authority Unloads Big Overtime for Cops
- November 21, 2023
The 10 highest-paid employees of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) last year were police officers who collected more than $370,000 each, according to data posted today on SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s government transparency website. Read More
Teachers’ Unions Get More Of The Pie By Stuffing School Boards With Members: Report
- November 20, 2023
Most school board members in NY's largest districts were elected with support from the teachers' union, a new report finds. Read More
Commentary
Collapse of Projects Shows Again that Wind Power is Not Affordable
- November 2, 2023
The renewable-power fantasy is being blown apart by furious financial headwinds. Already this year projects have tumbled in Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts, and now Danish wind-power giant Over and over, the litany of causes is th Read More
AOC Redefines the Term ‘Rich’
- October 2, 2023
New York socialists calling for higher taxes aim to spread the tax net far beyond Wall Street, scooping up folks on Main Street—especially in the suburbs. Bemoaning “violent budget cuts” at New York City agencies, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cort Read More
Preparing for COVID’s return: Learning the lessons of what went wrong
- September 4, 2023
The day after New York recorded its first positive coronavirus test, on March 2, 2020, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo said something that should go down in the annals of misplaced hubris: Read More
NYC schools should worry less about ‘mindful breathing’ and more about reading
- June 28, 2023
Mayor Adams should save his oxygen for the real crisis in our schools — our children are not being taught how to read, if they’re even showing up to class at all. Read More
State should not change law for disciplining public employees
- June 23, 2023
A bill headed to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk would make major changes to how school superintendents, town supervisors, and mayors handle bad behavior by public employees. Read More
Testimony
Comments by Bill Hammond on Proposed Pharmacy Benefit Management Regulations
- October 18, 2023
Comments by Bill Hammond Senior Fellow for Health Policy, Empire Center for Public Policy To the Department of Financial Read More
Testimony of E.J. McMahon
- October 11, 2023
Testimony of Edmund J. McMahon Before the NY State Senate Civil Service and Pension Committee October 11, 2023 (Text as prepared and submitted) Work Read More
Testimony of Bill Hammond Before the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committees
- February 28, 2023
New York’s state-share Medicaid spending – which was already the highest in the nation on a per capita basis[1] – has surged by $8 billion or 20 percent in just three years. Read More
Testimony of Edmund J. McMahon
- February 9, 2023
Testimony of Edmund J. McMahon Founding Senior Fellow, Empire Center for Public Policy Read More
Testimony on FY 24 Executive Budget Proposal: Elementary and Secondary Education Committee
- February 8, 2023
The school aid appropriation sought in the Executive Budget proposal — $34.4 billion in school year 2023-24 — would propel state spending for the public elementary and secondary education system to a level that is unprecedented in multiple respects. Read More
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