After nearly a week’s delay, Governor Kathy Hochul has finally announced a budget deal. Though the legislature has yet to formally agree to most of it, she disclosed numerous specifics of the purported $220 billion deal. Read More
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Nursing home staffing levels remained an unreliable indicator of Covid-19 risk for residents through the second year of the pandemic. Read More
Roughly $234 million of the $1.4 billion Buffalo Bills stadium construction funding package isn’t required to build the new 60,000 seat facility. Read More
As they contemplate a major increase in Medicaid spending on home care for the elderly and disabled, state legislators are relying on information that's outdated, incomplete or inaccurate – and neglecting to think through the predictable consequences. Read More
As of February, job counts in 21 states had surpassed their pre-pandemic employment levels, according to federal Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Read More
A huge outflow of residents from New York City accounted for nearly all of New York State's record single-year population loss following the Covid-19 outbreak Read More
The amount the Legislature proposes to spend, while dramatically increasing the size of the bond itself, is barely even a down payment on the huge cost of the CLCPA. Read More
A penetrating new audit of the Health Department's pandemic response makes clear that problems at the agency run much deeper than its misreporting of nursing home deaths. Read More