Research

New York's pandemic recovery has trailed far behind average payroll job growth in 48 of the 49 other states since early 2020, according to latest employment statistics. As detailed below, while New York City was hardest hit by the Covid-19 outbrea Read More

New York’s public schools lost almost 60,000 students — 2.38 percent of their total student population —in the past year alone Read More

The health-care agenda laid out by Governor Hochul in her budget proposal this week leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Here are a few of them. Read More

Activists want total control over every building in the state. How much will this add to the costs of new homes and commercial properties as developers scramble to make last-minute changes? Read More

Anyone following New York’s redistricting process knows it is desperately behind schedule and hopelessly caught up in political squabbling. Read More

The State of the State is the prelude to Hochul’s state budget reveal. It’s a budget that represents a generational opportunity. Read More

A puzzling pattern has emerged from New York's latest wave of the pandemic: Downstate hospitals are dealing with the lion's share of COVID patients, but upstate hospitals are the ones running out of beds. The parado Read More

The Scoping Plan prepared by the Climate Action Council claims benefits of up to $430 billion from the Climate Act. Read More

In her State of the State address this week, Governor Hochul prominently called for a $10 billion "multi-year investment" in the state's health care system, including $4 billion earmarked for wages and bonuses, with a Read More

In her first State of the State message today, Governor Kathy Hochul pledged to accelerate scheduled personal income tax cuts for "middle class" New Yorkers, with a fiscal impact she pegged at $1.2 billion. That figure sounds large but doesn't amo Read More

Hochul should “ring out the old” by appointing a subsidy board that will shelve the prevailing-wage expansion Read More

A whole lot of people moved out of New York state after last year’s COVID-19 outbreak and government-imposed lockdown restrictions. Read More