The heads of the five local school districts would be stripped of more than $200,000 of annual income if Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposed superintendent salary cap became reality. The Governor said his latest cost-saving proposal, announced Mond Read More
The cost of financing long-term care (LTC) through Medicaid is on track to become “a crippling burden” for New York State unless steps are taken to reform the program, a report issued Thursday by the Empire Center for Public Policy warns. The Read More
Long-term care is high-risk and high-cost, especially in New York. People 65 and older face a 70 percent probability that they'll need some LTC and a 20 percent likelihood they'll need five years or more. Nursing homes average $336 per day in New Read More
At a time when there is fevered interest in public pension issues, the trustees of the city's retirement funds are clamping an improper lid of secrecy on their doings. The names of every retiree who gets a public pension and the amounts they recei Read More
New York’s State Legislature spent $114 million during the six-month period ending last September, according to the latest legislative expenditure data posted at SeeThroughNY, the Empire Center’s transparency website. SeeThroughNY now includes Read More
Today on Up Close, Department of Homeless Services Commissioner, Seth Diamond.Also in the studio, E.J. McMahon of the Manhattan Institute and Frank Braconi of the NYC Comptroller's Office discuss the difference in salaries between employees of privat Read More
Laws have been on the books in New York and across the country for decades to compel government compliance with requests for public information. Yet hurdles remain evidenced by this newspaper's efforts to obtain payroll information from 36 municipali Read More
A review of Rochester-area public payroll records for 2009 reveals that 274 municipal employees earned more than $100,000, and the top earner was Monroe County's medical examiner, Dr. Caroline Dignan, who made $170,309. The top 20 — with cumulat Read More