Dissatisfaction spans party and regional lines as broad majorities rally behind sweeping tax reform FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ALBANY, N.Y.

New Yorkers overwhelmingly support gradually eliminating the state income tax. Statewide, 64% support the proposal, including ...

Payroll records for 8,401 employees of the Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF SUNY) for ...

The national average was 18.31 cents per kWh in July, leaving New York’s average residential electricity price 11.59 cents per kWh higher. Since July 2019, New York’s average residential electricity ...

New York City firefighters and fire officers retiring last year after full careers were entitled to average annual pension ...

Empire Center's Data section now includes over 50 different data sets in seven categories that measure and rank New York's state and local taxes, spending, debt and economic competitiveness.

New York households are paying the fourth-highest electricity prices in the country, according to the Empire Center’s Energy Data Bulletin. In April 2026, residential electricity prices in New York ...

Governor Hochul and state lawmakers this year approved a costly giveaway for public employee unions that retroactively hiked pension benefits for employees hired since 2012. Now the bill is arriving.

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 ...

Filling in more details of New York’s ongoing demographic decline, the Census Bureau has just released updated local population estimates showing that 80 percent of the state’s towns and cities have ...