The company used to help employers avoid paying for workers’ benefits. Now it’s slated to administer health insurance for tens of thousands of low-wage New Yorkers.
The biggest winners from the proposed break make well above New York’s median income.
Here’s what the key players in the state budget process are proposing on spending and taxes.
We answer your questions on the state’s notoriously opaque budget process.
A legally mandated program to reimburse organ donors has languished since 2022. The health department now says it’ll fix that this year.
The governor’s proposal could make it easier to cancel your gym subscription — but harder to cancel your phone or internet plan.
A $1,700 Bills suite tab was paid with campaign funds, bipartisan support for clean water funding, and New York’s top court upheld a man’s conviction despite his negligent lawyer.
The governor is proposing a tax break to reimburse volunteer organ donors for their gift. Meanwhile, the state has failed to implement a 2022 law that would do the same thing.
The Bronx Community Foundation spent almost none of the funds it raised for victims of the 2022 Twin Parks apartment fire.
Hochul is pushing an array of financial incentives to tackle the state’s housing crisis. But will they make a dent?
Updates about an increase in emissions, violence within New York’s prison system, and a breakup of two nonprofits over cannabis in NYC.
New York Focus reporter Sam Mellins reflects on what he learned this year, and teases what lies ahead for 2025.
The foundation offered few explanations for its hefty spending on overhead, or what it’s doing with millions in government grants.
Much of Albany’s lawmaking process is controlled by a platoon of mostly young, low-paid employees who craft policy ideas into potential laws. And they’re turning over in droves.
New York has a little-noticed tool to shift billions of highway dollars to climate-friendly public transit projects. The governor doesn’t seem interested.
The state’s top court has the final word on interpreting New York law and has seen dramatic changes in recent years.
The whole thing is just — weird.
Our reporting spurred the disclosure of millions in spending and illuminated the networks behind the Bronx political machine.
A Bronx political firm close to the borough’s Democratic party chair, Jamaal Bailey, is cashing in on local civil court races.
Last month, we asked five questions about what would happen in the election. Here are the answers.