Adams and Unions Strike Deal on Shift to Cost-Cutting Medicare Plan
The mayor and major city unions plan to press the City Council to clear a path for a privatized Medicare plan for retired city workers.
Stark disparities in access to life-saving medication for opioid addiction persist between facilities — and racial groups.
New York legislators have a plan to claim billions in federal funding for health care, driving a fight between industry groups.
The former budget director’s role may break a law meant to keep ex-state employees from monetizing insider knowledge.
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.
Migrants from Mauritania and Senegal were the most likely to receive eviction notices, but not the most populous groups in shelters, a New York Focus analysis found.
As the relationship was coming to light, Heastie returned $5,000 in campaign cash to a labor group from which he’d recused himself.
A new bill to municipalize Long Island’s utility includes key worker protections that the union had sought.
When local authorities hand out subsidies, school budgets lose revenue. The state teachers union is now pushing back.