The Empire State's largest public pension plan still has not fully recovered from the financial crisis and Great Recession of 2008-09, a new report from the state comptroller's office confirms. Read More
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How is New York’s health insurance market weathering the Affordable Care Act crosswinds? Relatively well in some respects and poorly in others. Read More
State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has just issued a report confirming what employment statistics have been showing: upstate New York's economy has lagged behind the nation and downstate regions for years now. Read More
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s new Clean Energy Standard is shaping up to be one of the largest tax hikes in state history. Read More
At the mid-summer mark, the private sector in upstate New York was still struggling to produce net employment gains, according to the state Labor Department's latest monthly report. Read More
New York State's low-cost Essential Plan is taking a big bite out of the state's market for private health insurance, newly released data show. Read More
New York's largest public pension fund earned 2 percent in its first fiscal quarter—which isn't necessarily good or bad news for taxpayers. Read More
By going along with double-digit premium hikes for individual-market health plans, the state is loosening handcuffs that should not exist. Read More