The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) lays out an ambitious slate of policy goals to promote clean energy and fight climate change. But can the state meet its energy needs under the new law and what will be the cost to New Yorkers?

Empire Center Senior Policy Analyst James Hanley delivers opening remarks on new research.

Empire Center’s E.J. McMahon talks with Bill Hammond about New York’s nursing home polices throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background reading:

State Department of Health report, “Factors Associated with Nursing Home Infections and Fatalities in New York State During the COVID-19 Global Health Crisis,” issued July 6

Cuomo Admin Ducks Important Questions on Nursing Homes, blog post by Bill Hammond, July 8

Nursing Home Vacancy Rate Soars, Hinting at a Higher Coronavirus Toll, blog post by Bill Hammond, June 30

#NYCoronavirus Chronicles, a regularly updated compendium of Empire Center research and analysis on the pandemic and its New York impact, dating back to Feb. 28.

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With the city comptroller’s office now projecting a loss of 35,000 jobs in New York-based investment banking and other financial services occupations, what’s the next thing that will drive profits and employment in a Wall Street recovery?  In a recent Bloomberg Radio “On the Economy” podcast, private investor David Goldman gave this answer:

There isn’t any next thing. This is the end of a cycle.  Wall Street employed some of the brightest people in the world to find clever ways to sneak leverage in under the door, or through the transom, in order to make thin returns look like fat returns.  There simply isn’t any demand for that now, so you’re going to have legions of people who were very gainfully employed doing this finding fulfillment in organic farming and other pursuits.

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