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Governor Spitzer's first Executive Budget would raise state spending by up to three times the projected rate of inflation in the fiscal year that begins April 1. Read More

The state-funded portion of Spitzer's $121 billion Executive Budget (excluding federal aid) calls for a spending hike of 7.8 percent - three times the projected inflation rate for the state's 2007-08 fiscal year, which begins April 1. Read More

Looking ahead to the first budget of his administration, Governor Spitzer pledged earlier this month to "make hard choices and begin to fundamentally reform and restructure programs that have become needlessly expensive" and to "say ‘no' to budget requests we simply cannot afford." Read More

While labor union rolls continue to shrink across the country, the latest federal statistics show that New York State's union membership rate--at nearly a quarter of the total workforce--remains more than double the national average.Nearly Read More

In a prelude to next week's budget message, Gov. Spitzer today delivered what was billed as a major address on health care reform. The real importance of the  was encapsulated in its title: "Patients First." What the governor described Read More

As Governor Spitzer plans to take on the problem of rocketing Medicaid spending on the elderly, he needs to get his focus right. In his recent State of the State address, Mr. Spitzer spoke of shifting spending away from expensive institutional car Read More

Attacking Albany's complicity in "the unchecked growth of pensions" for New York employees, Mayor Bloomberg last week said it was high time the city gained more direct control of its own retirement benefits. Read More

On the heels of new Census data showing the Empire State lost nearly a quarter-million residents within the past year, a major moving company says New York was one of the nation's leaders in "outbound" moves during 2006. In its , United Van Lines Read More