Nearing the end of the COVID-19 era's second year, New York remained more than a quarter-million private jobs below its February 2020 peak level Read More
Month: December 2022
A staff shortage in upstate hospitals prompted , where hospital officials and state lawmakers asked that more funding to train medical professionals be included in January’s sta Read More
Testimony of Bill Hammond Senior Fellow for Health Policy, Empire Center for Public Policy Presented Before the Assembly Aging Committee December 12, 2022 Read More
Albany, NY — An Albany mandate requiring 100 percent of new passenger car and truck sales be zero-emissions vehicles (ZEVs) by 2035 could be as improbable as it is harmful for middle- and low-income New Yorkers, a new Empire Center Read More
Nassau County taxpayers face what could be a $109 million bill. When will they be allowed to see the details? Read More
New York’s legislative employees are not eligible to unionize under the state’s sweeping public-sector collective bargaining law. Read More
Union advocates have argued that employees of the New York State Legislature are covered by the Taylor Law, the 1967 state law that requires state and local public employers, including state agencies, municipalities, and school districts, to recogniz Read More
In this episode of Messages of Necessity, Debi Ghate interviews IPPNY President and CEO Gavin Donahue. Read More