The Trump administration, eager to force local officials to collaborate with ICE, is coming for a Tompkins County sheriff who released a man who’d served his sentence.
New York has spent more on child care assistance in recent years, but high child care costs continue to drive families out of the state and into poverty.
The governor’s announcement appears to expand New York’s ability to cooperate with federal immigration authorities — but it’s not clear if the state has actually changed its policy.
In the last three years, New York has become the sports betting capital of the US.
Hochul says she has a plan to make New York affordable, through tax cuts and payments to families.
New York Focus reporter Julia Rock reflects on her varied coverage of state policy in an end-of-year wrapup.
An advisory group set up under a 2021 state law finalized its proposals to cut child poverty in half.
The Business Council, whose members include major warehouse owners UPS and Amazon, is pressing Governor Kathy Hochul to veto or amend the bill.
New York’s home care workers are suing insurance companies for systematically underpaying them for grueling, around-the-clock work.
A proposal from state Senator Andrew Gounardes would send some new parents $1,800 in the third trimester of pregnancy.
Pomerantz LLP attorneys have donated to comptroller candidates for decades, highlighting a loophole in rules meant to keep government contractors from spending in city elections.
The indictment has exposed cracks in New York’s widely admired way of helping fund campaigns.
Foreign governments have long courted local officials. Prosecutors are starting to go after them.
Nearly half of the state’s child care providers have raised tuition and a third have lost staff, a new report found.
More than 53,000 New Yorkers are allegedly facing delays regarding eligibility for benefits.
Payments for newborns have reduced poverty elsewhere, but are a novel idea in New York.
The Citizens Budget Commission wants the governor to halt a just-passed extension of the Industrial and Commercial Abatement Program so a study of the controversial subsidy can be completed.
Before Kathy Hochul paused it, the tolling program lost the little labor support it had when the Transport Workers Union withdrew its backing this spring.
As climate disasters threaten a home insurance crisis, a new state bill aims at the problem’s root.
The recently formed Solidarity PAC has mobilized big finance and real estate to target socialists and the Working Families Party.