The Empire Center, a fiscal watchdog group, in April released a report detailing borderline-impossible levels of OT being racked up by some MTA honchos, launching a series of Post exposés into some of the biggest beneficiaries. Read More
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A 2017 study by the Empire Center found liability costs in New York exceed $20 billion a year. If those costs were passed on to every household in the state — which really they are, in a way, because all affected organizations and insurers have to pass their costs on to their clients —- it would work out to be $2,700 annually. Read More
As a new report from the conservative Empire Center shows, the education spending gap has grown ever wider over the past 20 years. Spending in New York was 45% higher than the national average in 1997, 65% higher 10 years later and 89% higher in 2017. That’s unsustainable, as the state’s out-migration demonstrates. Read More
Recently released population figures do not paint an improving picture for our county and region. According to the Empire Center figures — over the last nine years — all of our municipalities are losing residents. Read More
The Empire Center’s Ken Girardin recently broke the news that the state last year generated slightly less electricity from renewable sources (wind, hydroelectric and solar) than it did in 2017. Read More
All together, these and a few other adjustments results in total spending increasing by $4.7 billion for this year, according to the Empire Center. Read More
The heightened scrutiny of overtime at the MTA follows the release of a report by the Empire Center for Public Policy that revealed an unusually high rate of overtime collected by some employees, especially those at the Long Island Rail Road. Read More
Nine of the top 10 overtime earners at the MTA worked for the LIRR, documents obtained by the conservative think tank Empire Center for Public Policy show. Read More