Budget 2022: New revenue fuels spending surge
The Empire Center for Public Policy offered the following reactions to the proposed 2022 State Budget. Read More
Press Room
Press Releases
Empire Center to IRC: End the Gridlock
- January 17, 2022
The Empire Center for Public Policy has created its own set of maps for New York’s congressional, senate and assembly districts. Read More
Public School Retiree Pensions Set New Record
- January 11, 2022
Average pension benefits for newly retired public educators outside New York City reached a record high last year Read More
State of the State Reactions: Will This Bring New Yorkers Back?
- January 5, 2022
The Empire Center for Public Policy offered the following reactions to Governor Hochul’s first State of the State address. Read More
Empire Center Previews State of the State: People are Leaving
- January 5, 2022
Albany, NY — New York suffered a net loss of about 1.4 million residents to other states during the past decade. With those residents went businesses and jobs, perpetuating a cycle of loss for the Empire State. “The State of Read More
Commentary
Mapping a more democratic New York State
- January 19, 2022
Anyone following New York’s redistricting process knows it is desperately behind schedule and hopelessly caught up in political squabbling. Read More
Hochul can still save the state from a new law certain to drive developers away
- January 3, 2022
Hochul should “ring out the old” by appointing a subsidy board that will shelve the prevailing-wage expansion Read More
Can New York reverse its record-setting pandemic-era population drop?
- December 23, 2021
A whole lot of people moved out of New York state after last year’s COVID-19 outbreak and government-imposed lockdown restrictions. Read More
Unrealistic beliefs in climate law
- December 13, 2021
New Yorkers should be on high alert in the wake of a new study issued last month concerning the ambitious climate law signed by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in July 2019 that mandates goals and timetables for the state’s transition from fossil fuels to r Read More
New York’s $360 billion debt iceberg
- November 5, 2021
The city spent $3.2 billion on retiree health care last year. But that’s just the tip of a $118 billion iceberg of debt it owes — more than any government except the state of California. Read More
Testimony
Peter Warren: Written testimony to the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committees
- January 26, 2022
Empire Center director of research Peter Warren testifies on K-12 education. Read More
Bill Hammond testifies before the Assembly Health Committee
- November 1, 2021
The past decade saw significant change in Medicaid, so the time is ripe for rethinking and course correction. Read More
Bill Hammond Testifies on Public Health Spending in FY2022 Budget
- February 25, 2021
The past year has taught a painful lesson about the importance of public health defenses, not just in terms of preventing sickness and death, but also preserving our economy and way of life. Read More
E.J. McMahon Testifies on Tax Issues in FY2022 Budget
- February 23, 2021
In economic terms, the coronavirus pandemic has been the most disruptive event to hit New York and the nation since the Great Depression in the early 1930s. While New Yorkers hope to resume to some semblance of normal life by summer, the fiscal hangover for the state and its local governments will linger for years. Read More
Empire Center’s Kingsbury to Legislature: Cuomo’s budget exacerbates spending problem
- January 28, 2021
New York spends more per student on education than any state or country. According to the most recent national and international spending estimates, New York would retain that status even after cutting state funding to schools by 20 percent. Read More
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