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Tax cap offers strongest shield to NY’s poorest school districts
Over the past seven years, New York’s cap on local property tax levies has generated billions of dollars in savings for homeowners and businesses, compared to previous trends. The cap has been espec....
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Hospital Revenue Surge Creates Haves and Have-Nots
New York’s hospitals are in the throes of two seemingly contradictory trends. Their collective revenues are showing strong growth, yet more and more of them are chronically operating in the red.
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Do No Harm
The costs and risks of a state-run single-payer health-care program would be much greater, and the benefits much smaller, than its proponents claim.
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Tax cap offers strongest shield to NY’s poorest...
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Hospital Revenue Surge Creates Haves and Have-Nots
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Do No Harm
Protecting the Tax Cap
New Yorkers are saving billions of dollars a year under the 2011 state law capping annual growth in local property tax levies at 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less. But the long-term fate of the tax cap is hanging in the balance this year, because the tax cap is attached to a "temporary" but decades-old state law regulating rents in New York City, due to expire June 15.
It's high time the tax cap was enshrined in a permanent, stand-alone law.
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View AllWhere NY’s school money goes
Does New York’s education funding system direct more money to wealthier, whiter schools than to poorer, less white schools? Let's look at the data.
