Workers are currently forced to pay for insurance that many don’t want.
New York’s bail reform law didn’t eliminate cash bail and hasn’t led to increased crime or recidivism. The Trump administration is still targeting it.
“New Yorkers did not agree to trade their right to privacy for the promise of free internet,” key committee chairs wrote to city officials.
The company in charge said they would explore other insurance options.
The Legal Aid Society alleges that DOCCS declared an overbroad emergency to keep incarcerated people locked in their cells for upward of 20 hours a day.
With a hearing on New York’s troubled home care program set for Thursday, here are five questions we’d like answered.
Public comments are closing soon for an underwater pipeline project that sprang back to life this spring after talks between Hochul and Trump.
Short-staffed since a strike this winter, the prison system is keeping people locked in their boiling cells and dorms for upwards of 21 hours a day.
The judge suggested he’ll rule that the state is violating its climate law.
First-time offenders might receive community service, but penalties may be severe.
Big Apple Connect, the mayor’s flagship free internet service for public housing residents, is quietly being used to expand the NYPD’s real-time, remote surveillance. Here’s what we still don’t know about the clandestine program.
The Adams administration is using its flagship broadband program to give police real-time access to NYCHA camera feeds — without telling anyone.
Whether legislators should return to Albany this year to tackle historic cuts to Medicaid and food assistance has become a thorny political question.
Fraud and falsehoods often don’t stop debt collectors from pursuing their targets for years.
There are 1,500 families on the program waitlist in New York City alone, new state data shows.
Nonprofit hospitals are required to help those struggling with medical debt, but critics say their policies are poorly advertised and underutilized.
Learn the income thresholds, deadlines, and free support services that help New Yorkers shave down or sometimes completely erase medical debt.
In some counties, the waitlist for state-funded mental health treatment programs can exceed two years.