2+ hour, 21+ min ago  (307+ words) Albany legislators steered over $83 million in grants to 293 local projects between April and December 2025 , according to data the Empire Center recently received under a Freedom of Information Law request. The governor and state legislators hand-picked the grantees for more than…...

4+ day, 30+ min ago  (900+ words) As Washington threatens to crack down on fraud and abuse in New York's Medicaid program, state legislators are doing their best to demonstrate why federal intervention is needed. A glitch in the state's "surprise billing" law is allowing certain physicians…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago  (14+ words) Getting to the Bottom of the 340B Drug Discount Boondoggle'Empire Center for Public Policy...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (655+ words) Zohran Mamdani's stunning election as mayor of New York City marks a watershed moment for the Empire State. As a.... Giving Families an Escape Hatch from NYC Public Schools - by Ian Kingsbury (Guest Contributor and Former Empire Center Senior Fellow) Zohran…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (859+ words) Today marks the sixth anniversary of a fateful moment in New York's coronavirus pandemic: the Cuomo administration's order sending Covid-infected patients into nursing homes. Of the thousands of seat-of-the-moment judgment calls made by the Cuomo administration during that harrowing time…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago  (157+ words) On Friday, Gov. Kathy Hochul finally started tiptoeing toward reality on New York's climate law. In a lengthy opinion column, she laid out her proposal to postpone by a decade the state's stringent greenhouse-gas emissions rules, set by law to…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (1228+ words) As the Trump administration cracks down on fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid, New York is a logical place to start. New York spends far more per capita on the safety-net health plan than any other state, and its enrollment…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (936+ words) Now that New York has won partial federal approval for overhauling its Essential Plan, it's worth being clear about what the state is doing and why. The redesign sought by Governor Hochul is not primarily about "preserving coverage," as she…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1632+ words) The company selected to manage an $11 billion Medicaid home-care program discussed the job in detail with top Health Department officials " and submitted a 46-page takeover plan " two weeks before state lawmakers authorized soliciting bids for the $1 billion contract, according to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (277+ words) Albany, N.Y. "The state and its taxpayers cannot afford to allow Medicaid spending to keep growing at five times the inflation rate, the Empire Center's Bill Hammond warns in testimony to be delivered today to the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committees. The…...