Category: Media Coverage
Last month state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced that he was broadening his investigation into pension corruption. .. Read More
By working more than 1,600 overtime hours in his last year on the job, a Rochester firefighter retired in late 2007 with an annual pension of $103,952 — despite a base salary of $60,121. That is the largest pension paid out last year to any city Read More
Should public-employee pensions operate more like private 401(k) plans? Conservative analysts say "yes," adding that rising costs of traditional public pensions could become unsustainable. "It makes the taxpayers bear an enormous financial risk Read More
Live in Westchester County and you pay the highest property taxes in the nation, with a median of $8,404 a year. Live in upstate New York, and you also have an unenviable distinction. Sixteen upstate counties — including Monroe, Orleans, Erie Read More
A policy researcher says New York is in a budget crisis because it depended too much on Wall Street bonuses to fund state government. When the markets crashed, those high incomes went away - and with them, the state's revenues. EJ McMahon is the d Read More