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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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
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
The Empire Center for Public Policy offered the following reactions to the proposed 2022 State Budget. 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
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
The Empire Center for Public Policy offered the following reactions to Governor Hochul’s first State of the State address. Read More