Private-sector employment in New York increased faster than the nationwide recovery rate in the month of April, according to The April count of private-sector employment was estimated at 7.4 million jobs, up slight Read More
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School budget votes proposing an average increase in per pupil spending of 4.2 percent were overwhelmingly approved in state-wide voting held yesterday. Read More
New York's spending on public elementary and secondary education reached $25,139 per pupil during the 2018-19 school year, once again surpassing all states in . The Empire State's public schools spent 91 percent more than the nati Read More
Today was the (rescheduled) deadline for filing 2020 federal income tax returns, which makes this New York's third annual SALT-Free Income Tax Day. By midnight tonight, most Empire State residents will have been remind Read More
New York's hospitals remain near the bottom of two quality report cards. The state's hospitals received the lowest rate of any state except Nevada and DC. Read More
Some New York nursing homes are likely to scale back their use of higher-trained personnel if proposed minimum staffing ratios become law, according to a review of existing employment patterns. Read More
Lawmakers in Albany are again advancing the New York Health Act, which would abolish private health insurance Read More
The official 2020 U.S. Census of NY's population—topping 20 million for the first time—is significantly larger than previous estimates. Read More
New York has been trailing most states in the race to recover from the economically devastating coronavirus pandemic, recent employment data have shown. Read More
New York's bluest counties are posting the lowest coronavirus vaccination rates for older residents, a striking contrast with the pattern in the U.S. as a whole. The disparity Read More
Under the latest version of the single-payer bill – which has broad support on Democrats in the Legislature – hundreds of thousands of commuters from other states would face the replacement of their current health insurance with a Medicaid-like plan funded with tax dollars and managed by Albany. Read More
Even as Governor Cuomo touted vaccine approvals by a state-appointed panel of experts, his office was withholding the group's detailed findings from public view. The governor's Read More