Hochul’s Proposed 421-A Replacement Is In For a Fight, Key Lawmakers Signal
“By April 1, it will be out or modified. It will not be this program,” one legislator predicted.
This article has been updated to include a new statement from the mayor's office.
Low-wage manual laborers can sue to make their bosses pay them weekly. Hochul’s late-breaking budget addition may undermine that right.
New York’s transparency watchdog found that the ethics commission violated open records law by redacting its own recusal forms.
New York has one of the weakest consumer protection laws in the country. This year’s state budget may change that.
Hochul’s proposed Medicaid cuts include $125 million from Health Homes, a program that connects the neediest New Yorkers with medical care, food assistance, and more.
One in five kids in New York live in poverty. Legislators are pushing Hochul to fulfill her promise to cut that rate in half.
The Assembly and Senate want to beef up labor standards and farmland protections for clean energy projects. Developers say that would slow down the energy transition.
Previously unreleased disciplinary files expose officers who beat, slap, and pepper spray the residents they’re supposed to protect. Most are back at work within a month.
Referencing a New York Focus story, Assemblymember Jessica González-Rojas introduced legislation to prevent public agencies from naming the medically discredited condition in their reports.
In the New York City teachers union, anger over a plan to privatize retiree health care could send a longshot campaign over the edge.
As real estate developers resist wage guarantees and try to roll back tenants’ rights, a potential budget deal is at an impasse.
What are industrial development agencies?
The county is ready to restart real estate subsidies after a two-year pause. Residents fear it won’t fix their housing crisis.