State lawmakers are divided over proposal known as "Coverage for All," which would allow low-income undocumented immigrants to obtain free health insurance through the state-run Essential Plan. Read More
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A state budget report published last week by the Hochul administration broke several pieces of news about Medicaid and other state health programs. Here are some of the key rev Read More
The New York legislature last year created a legislative commission tasked with justifying and crafting a plan for full municipalization of the Long Island Power Authority. Read More
New York’s outyear budget gaps, the shortfall between planned state expenses and state tax receipts over the next three years, has exploded to more than $36 billion, just-released documents show. Read More
Nearly half of New York's nursing homes would be effectively exempted from a two-year-old minimum spending law under terms of a rollback passed by state lawmakers this week. En Read More
The murky world of hospital pricing would be exposed to more sunlight under a bill approved this week by state lawmakers. The legislation calls for the state-run employee healt Read More
Left standing outside this concern for justice is the developing world's labor force upon whose broken and polluted bodies New Yorkers will build their green future. Read More
New York’s construction unions, facing a decades-long decline, are employing a time-honored tactic: getting state government to stop people from competing with them. Read More
A pair of state-employed writers began researching, outlining and drafting a book about Governor Andrew Cuomo's pandemic response in late March 2020, weeks before New York's harrowing first wave had passed, according to newly disclosed email records. Read More
A politically connected medical group in the Bronx garnered an unusual benefit in the new state budget – access to money previously reserved for financially troubled safety-net hospitals and nursing homes. Read More
A state Senate committee on Wednesday approved legislation weakening the ability of local government and school officials to discipline workers Read More
Public elementary and secondary school spending in New York rose to $26,571 per pupil in 2020-21, according to the latest Census Bureau data Read More