The push in Albany to boost wages for home health aides is seemingly disconnected from the larger realities of the state’s long-term care system. As they , officials in the home care industry are warning that the state faces an of in-home careg Read More
The property tax cap has an extraordinary record of restraining tax hikes without unduly straining education budgets. Read More
Many New Yorkers have recently suffered sticker shock from high energy prices. Utility bills have increased up to 25 percent. Read More
New York owes $9.3 billion to the U.S. Treasury for pandemic-related debt that, if left unpaid, will inflict harm on resident businesses for years to come Read More
While the power from these new projects will go directly into the City, all New York utility users will help pay for them through their utilities’ purchases of renewable energy credits. Read More
New York's pandemic recovery has trailed far behind average payroll job growth in 48 of the 49 other states since early 2020, according to latest employment statistics. As detailed below, while New York City was hardest hit by the Covid-19 outbrea Read More
New York’s public schools lost almost 60,000 students — 2.38 percent of their total student population —in the past year alone Read More
The health-care agenda laid out by Governor Hochul in her budget proposal this week leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Here are a few of them. Read More
Activists want total control over every building in the state. How much will this add to the costs of new homes and commercial properties as developers scramble to make last-minute changes? Read More
The State of the State is the prelude to Hochul’s state budget reveal. It’s a budget that represents a generational opportunity. Read More
A puzzling pattern has emerged from New York's latest wave of the pandemic: Downstate hospitals are dealing with the lion's share of COVID patients, but upstate hospitals are the ones running out of beds. The parado Read More
The Scoping Plan prepared by the Climate Action Council claims benefits of up to $430 billion from the Climate Act. Read More