Washington Failed to Expand the Child Tax Credit. Can Albany Get Kids Out of Poverty Instead?
One in five kids in New York live in poverty. Legislators are pushing Hochul to fulfill her promise to cut that rate in half.
“Often the birth of a child will trigger a spell of poverty.”
The idea for the Working Families Tax Credit “came from a frustration born out of the expiration of the federal expanded child credit.”
Hundreds of Child Victims Act cases have been filed against New York schools, some over accused serial offenders that could leave districts with tens of millions of dollars in liability.
No state pursues workers for overpaid unemployment benefits as aggressively as New York. A proposed reform is colliding with New York’s own repayment problem.
A quarter of lawmakers in Albany are landlords. Almost none of them are covered by the most significant tenant protection law in years.