New Yorkers are in a leaving state of mind. New York saw 7.3 million more residents leave the state than moved in from other states over the last 50 years, an alarming new think tank report shows. "Clearly we've been doing something wrong for a Read More
E.J. McMahon, senior fellow for Tax and Budgetary Studies at the Manhattan Institute and director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, and Sam Roberts, urban affairs correspondent for the New York Times, explain the migration of New Yorkers over t Read More
Call it a modern day Ellis Island: More people are moving to Texas than to every other state but Florida, according to a report on migration released today by the Empire Center, a New York policy research project. The study uses 2010 Census data coup Read More
The tally of people New York has lost to other states since 2000 is the highest it has been in three decades, but unlike the situation in the 1970s, the surplus of births over deaths has kept the population from declining. Over all, it rose to 19. Read More
We've all seen stories about the out-migration of New York residents to other states -- perhaps North Carolina, Texas, Arizona or Florida -- where the taxes or cost of living might be lower and the average year-round temperatures are higher. But d Read More
Taxed-out New Yorkers are voting with their feet, with a staggering 1.6 million residents fleeing the state over the last decade, a new report found. That's as if the entire populations of Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, White Plains and West Babylon Read More