Payroll data released Thursday by the Empire Center think tank show public school custodians were the highest-paid municipal employees for fiscal year 2014, earning an average of $109,467 a year. That's well above police officers, who got an average of $78,220. Read More
“This is an unsustainable model that gets more expensive year after year,” said Empire Center Executive Director Tim Hoefer. Read More
His payout is the highest by far in both the city and state teachers retirement systems, according to data obtained by the Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany-based think tank. Read More
"Since 2009, the workforce downstate has grown by as much or more than the workforce upstate has shrunk," said E.J. McMahon, president of the fiscally conservative Empire Center for State Policy in Albany. Read More
The number of people receiving pensions larger than $100,000 from the New York City Teacher Retirement System doubled between 2008 and 2013, according to data obtained by the Albany-based Empire Center and posted at SeeThroughNY.net. Read More
“These certainly sound like the right goals for state tax policy. Much of what he’s proposing is a natural next step beyond what Cuomo has done,” said E.J. McMahon of the Empire Center for New York State Policy. Read More
Empire Center President E.J. McMahon joined Fred Dicker to discuss the Empire Center's analysis of employment data in Pennsylvania (which allows natural gas exploration) and New York (which does not). Read More
Empire Center President E.J. McMahon joined John Gambling to talk about Mayor de Blasio's plan to roll back Bloomberg-era savings on student transportation. Read More