Category: Press Releases

New York’s spending on education and Medicaid will leave a hole in the budget after federal COVID relief money runs out Read More

State lawmakers spent $7.3 million on postage for campaign-style mailings to constituents in the six-month run-up to last year’s elections Read More

New York public schools are on track to experience the largest decline in enrollment since 1981 Read More

The Empire Center has filed for coronavirus-related records from the Department of Health and other state agencies. The requests demand a broad range of public records documenting the toll of the virus across New York as well as officials’ attempt Read More

The Cuomo administration approved more than $45 million in new pork-barrel capital grants last year.  Read More

Second Deadliest Nursing Home Already in State’s hands Read More

Sharp reductions in state funding for core public health functions over the past decade may have weakened New York’s defenses against the coronavirus pandemic, according to testimony delivered today by Bill Hammond, the Empire Center’s senior fellow for health policy. Read More

“The economies of New York City and State will recover eventually—but how strongly, and how soon, are open questions. In the meantime, the Legislature’s guiding principal can be summed up in five words: don’t push more taxpayers away.” Read More