A new statewide poll released by the Empire Center this month gives Albany a clear, if unwelcome, message: New Yorkers will ...

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Executive Summary New Yorkers are dissatisfied with New York’s litigation environment and broadly favor changes to the ...

Long Island may be New York's strongest case that money matters in education — and also its strongest warning that, past a certain point, more money is not the answer. Long Island is widely regarded ...

Electricity. In June 2026, New York had the nation’s fifth-highest residential electricity price at 29.49 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh), 60.8 percent above the U.S. average. Prices decreased 1.5 ...

The largest revenue-raiser in the just-completed state budget, worth $2 billion over four years, is not a tax or a fee or even a legal settlement. It takes the form of semi-voluntary “grants” squeezed ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Empire Center’s Energy Data Bulletin shows New York households paid the third-highest residential electricity prices in the country in May 2026, trailing only Hawaii and California. The ...

The tragic impact of the coronavirus pandemic in New York’s nursing homes has revived debate about how the industry operates, including how it handles the Medicaid and Medicare money that makes up the ...

There are several (dozens? hundreds?) of unanswered questions as the fallout from Andrew Cuomo’s resignation earlier today continues. Among those are questions related to his pension, some of which ...

New York State added just 1,008 new residents last year as its post-pandemic recovery ground to a near standstill, newly released Census Bureau estimates show. The population increase of just one-half ...

In 2030, New York may begin a policy of forcing New York families to use electricity for home heating instead of fuels like heating oil, propane and natural gas. Homeowners whose furnaces fail in ...