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County and Municipal Payrolls in New York Local government is a labor-intensive business, and employee compensation is the single biggest element of most municipal budgets. The 2021 edition of What Read More

New York's health benefit costs increased faster than the national average in 2020, leaving it with the second-least affordable coverage in the U.S. The state's average total c Read More

The document, titled “Foil at a Glance,” lays out the Cuomo administration’s procedures for handling FOIL requests Read More

Fewer than one in four New York City office workers are back in the office, according to a pair of datasets issued this week.    Read More

Comptroller DiNapoli has taken a big step to bolster the financial stability of New York State's largest public-sector retirement system Read More

The Cuomo administration left out many people who died without a test during the early weeks of the pandemic Read More

Kathy Hochul’s  stuck to the tradition for initial inaugurals: blessedly brief, general themes, details (implicitly) to follow. Hochul’s specific priorities were lowest-common-denominator stuff: “combating” the spread of COVID-19 linked Read More

As an organization committed to openness in government, we welcome your commitment to leading a fully transparent administration Read More