Christakis remarked on the website that graduate students, now moving to unionize at the school, are not ordinary worker. Read More
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If a government agency loses $11 billion, do New York’s legislators make a sound? That’s the question in Albany after Comptroller Tom DiNapoli issued his investigation into what was likely the most expensive administrative mishap in state hist Read More
Overtime payouts to New York City government employees rose by more than one-third last year. The City paid out a total of $2.44 billion dollars in overtime in Fiscal Year 2022, a 36 percent increase from the prior year’s total of $1.8 billion. Read More
An audit report shines some overdue light on New York’s handling of unemployment insurance claims it paid out during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read More
If the power goes out under a fully municipalized LIPA, you can bet neither the Legislature nor public power advocates will accept the blame. Read More
New York’s Medicaid program spends roughly $12 billion per year on in-home “personal care” for the elderly and disabled. Read More
A large share of the state’s Medicaid budget is flowing to personal care, or non-medical services provided to the elderly and disabled at home. Read More
The Hochul Administration has finally released an overdue budget report—which, on first look, shows the state's fiscal outlook virtually unchanged. Read More