Dissatisfaction spans party and regional lines as broad majorities rally behind sweeping tax reform FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ALBANY, N.Y. - New Yorkers are delivering a blunt assessment of the state’s tax system: 67% say th Read More
Month: July 2026
Summary New Yorkers have reached a clear verdict: The state’s tax system is not delivering. A full 67% say they are not getting good value for their tax dollars, while 64% support eliminating the state income tax. Read More
Payroll records for 8,401 employees of the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) for fiscal year 2026 are , the Empire Center's government transparency website. The Research Foundation is a private, nonprofit education Read More
New York City firefighters and fire officers retiring last year after full careers were entitled to average annual pension benefits of $177,016, according to , the Empire Center's government transparency website. Among the 499 new retirees with at Read More
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s average residential electricity price reached 29.90 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in July 2026, the fifth highest in the nation and 63.3 pe Read More
September 2026 Summary and Insights Electricity. In June 2026, New York had the nation's fifth-highest residential electricity price at 29.49 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh), 60.8 percent above the U.S. average. Pri Read More
In 2024, the New York state Legislature decided the state needed some money — $75 billion, to be exact — for “comprehensive adaptation to the effects of in New York state.” The Legislature thought it had f Read More
Greater Long Island’s recent into the rise of homeschooling sparked quite a debate. Hundreds of readers on Facebook, weighing in on everything from academics and socialization to parental rights, teacher qualificatio Read More