ALBANY, April 27 — When Gov. Eliot Spitzer and legislative leaders announced $1.3 billion in new property tax relief late last month, they did not mention that older New Yorkers got largely cut out of the deal. But taxpayers 65 and older ended u Read More
Of the nine New York hospitals targeted for closure by a commission created by Governor Pataki, only three are moving forward with shutting their doors six months after the recommendations were issued. While no one expected hospitals to acquiesce Read More
ALBANY — After allowing a state panel's recommendations for shrinking New York's troubled hospital industry to become law, legislative leaders are now seeking to undo parts of the plan by passing a new law that could save a number of hospitals from Read More
The state budget approved last month by Gov. Spitzer and the Legislature came in higher than initially reported and actually increases spending by $2.9 billion, the state controller said yesterday. The $121 billion budget passed on April 1 now tip Read More
New York's overall tax burden is the heaviest in the nation - a staggering $5,770 average for every man, woman and child, a new study found. Per-capita state and local taxes are 36 percent higher in New York compared with the national average of $ Read More
New York state's enormous tax burden is fueled in part by a massive taxpayer-financed workforce that is second only to California in salaries, experts say. State and local governments in New York employ 1.19 million full-time work ers, with an ave Read More
Governor Spitzer's aggressive effort to shore up his relationship with organized labor is threatening to erode his goodwill with business interests, which are responding with skepticism to his plan to create the state's first paid family leave progra Read More
They don't call the Bay State "Taxachusetts" anymore. Massachusetts, once a rival to New York for the nation's highest combined state and local taxes, has taken a series of dramatic steps - from Medicaid reform to property-tax limits - aimed at re Read More