Unless Albany offers more money, tens of thousands of parents in New York City are set to lose child care assistance this year. We spoke to six of them.
Donors solicited by at least three undisclosed bundlers — Tonio Burgos, Jim Whelan, and Rick Ostroff — were told their gifts would be matched with public funds, despite that being barred by city election law.
The candidates did not disclose Solidarity PAC’s fundraising role in campaign finance disclosures.
The compromise would reduce business taxes and raise the benefit level, but leave the program inadequately funded.
The budget plans set up a fight with Governor Kathy Hochul, who did not propose substantial new investments at all.
They got tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to defend Andrew Cuomo against scandal. Now, they’re helping fund his comeback.
Absent more money from the state, city officials warn that they will hit a funding cliff as early as April.
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.