New York’s public schools lost almost 60,000 students — 2.38 percent of their total student population —in the past year alone Read More
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New York's pandemic recovery has trailed far behind average payroll job growth in 48 of the 49 other states since early 2020, according to latest employment statistics. As detailed below, while New York City was hardest hit by the Covid-19 outbrea Read More
The health-care agenda laid out by Governor Hochul in her budget proposal this week leaves a lot of questions unanswered. Here are a few of them. Read More
Activists want total control over every building in the state. How much will this add to the costs of new homes and commercial properties as developers scramble to make last-minute changes? Read More
The State of the State is the prelude to Hochul’s state budget reveal. It’s a budget that represents a generational opportunity. Read More
A puzzling pattern has emerged from New York's latest wave of the pandemic: Downstate hospitals are dealing with the lion's share of COVID patients, but upstate hospitals are the ones running out of beds. The parado Read More
The Scoping Plan prepared by the Climate Action Council claims benefits of up to $430 billion from the Climate Act. Read More
In her State of the State address this week, Governor Hochul prominently called for a $10 billion "multi-year investment" in the state's health care system, including $4 billion earmarked for wages and bonuses, with a Read More