Reports : Empire Center for Public Policy

The Impact of Single-Payer on New York Hospitals by Bill Hammond | November 13, 2018 | Reports

Analyzing the impact of single-payer health care on New York's hospitals [Read_more]

Benchmarking New York November 01, 2018 | Reports

Compare the taxes, spending and debt of local governments across New York State. [Read_more]

New York’s Uneven Economic Recovery by E.J. McMahon | October 23, 2018 | Reports

There has been a sharp and growing economic divide between upstate and downstate. [Read_more]

Civil and Substantive by E.J. McMahon | October 09, 2018 | Commentary, Perspective, Reports

Unearthed videos of 1982 Cuomo-Lehrman debates: An example of how much (and, in some ways, how little) has changed in NY politics over the intervening decades. [Read_more]

New York public school enrollment: back to 1989-90 levels, and still falling by E.J. McMahon | September 04, 2018 | Reports

When public schools across the Empire State open their doors for 2018-19, pupil enrollment will be at its lowest level in nearly 30 years. [Read_more]

What They Make 2017-18 August 27, 2018 | Reports

Local government is a labor-intensive business, and employee compensation is the single biggest element of most municipal budgets. [Read_more]

Shifting Shares by Bill Hammond | July 10, 2018 | Reports

This issue brief explores the financial considerations and policy challenges associated with eliminating the local Medicaid share and reviews the options for implementing a state takeover. [Read_more]

Taylor Made May 30, 2018 | Reports

Marking the Taylor Law's 50th anniversary, this paper reviews the background of the law and highlights provisions and precedents in need of state legislative reform. [Read_more]

Profit Potential by Bill Hammond | May 14, 2018 | Reports

This report finds no evidence that ownership restrictions have produced a public benefit in terms of the quality, cost or accessibility of hospital care. [Read_more]

School Districts Pushing the Limit, 2018-19 May 04, 2018 | Press Releases, Reports

Nearly half of the 669 school districts seeking voter approval for budgets on Tuesday, May 15 are presenting spending plans that would increase property taxes as high as the 2011 property tax cap law allows, according to an analysis released today by the Empire Center for Public Policy. [Read_more]

Local New York Property Taxes Ranked by Empire Center April 23, 2018 | Press Releases, Reports

Benchmarking NY uses data from the state comptroller’s office to calculate effective tax rates–combined county, municipal and school taxes as a percent of market value–for thousands of localities across the state during 2017, excluding only New York City and Nassau County. [Read_more]

Exploring NY’s top-heavy PIT base (2018 update) by E.J. McMahon | April 16, 2018 | Reports

Nearly two-thirds of New York State’s tax receipts are now generated by the personal income tax, or PIT. As a result, the state is very heavily reliant on highest-earning 1 percent of New York taxpayers—whose effective income tax rates have increased sharply under the new federal tax law capping state and local tax (SALT) deductions. [Read_more]

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