Research

Micron says it intends to invest $20 billion by 2030 in a single “Mega-fab” and up to $100 billion in total over the next 20 years Read More

If it’s not yet a failure, the commission to revamp the Long Island Power Authority is at least already a fiasco.  Read More

New York bureaucrats are ditching standards for what children in public schools should learn. Why are they increasing their imposition on yeshivas? Read More

Graduation rates are rising while standards for graduation are falling. It begs the question: What number of graduating students are college ready? Read More

The announcement that Micron Technologies will build a computer-chip plant in Onondaga County comes with an important condition that will deliberately hike the price tag. Read More

New York City set an example worthy of approbation and emulation by publishing their grade 3-8 test results in math and English language arts. Read More

In a provocative flex of executive power, the state Health Department is requiring a hospital system to spend $50 million on health care in Brooklyn and Queens if it wants to open an $8.4 million heart transplant center in Manhattan. Read More

The future is not bright for the Empire State’s electrical power grid, according to the newly released 2021 - 2040 System & Resource Outlook Read More

One of New York City’s largest public-sector unions has been effectively taken over by its national parent after an audit revealed extensive financial mismanagement. It’s the latest example of misconduct made possible under New York’s public-sector collective bargaining rules that force the government to collect hundreds of millions of dollars annually without any safeguards on how the funds are spent.  Read More

Nationwide test results revealing major pandemic learning loss have been front page news this month. Read More

The state's Essential Plan has generated billions in surpluses as the program automatically drew pandemic relief money that it did not need Read More

A few months into its third fiscal year since the pandemic’s start, New York City’s finances have never looked so flush — and so precarious. Read More