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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

New York's private-sector job recovery accelerated in March—but remained far behind the national pace on a year-to-year basis Read More

In spite of an ongoing pandemic and spiraling Medicaid costs, New York's health-care system received surprisingly little attention in the new state budget. On issue after issue Read More

Looking ahead to an uncertain post-pandemic recovery, New York’s newly enacted state budget for fiscal year 2022 raises spending by staggering amounts that—barring an unlikely rapid return to peak 2019 economic activity in New York City—can't possibly be sustained for more than a few years. The budget is a mid-2020s fiscal disaster in the making: an incomplete bridge over a deepening river of red ink. Read More

The details apparently would get rancid if exposed to daylight, but Governor Cuomo and legislative leaders the broad outlines of their budge Read More

New York and its local governments—and yet the new state budget will pump even more money into New York's biggest capital pork-barrel slush fund. Read More