At a Board of Regents meeting Monday, state officials proposed eliminating credit-based diploma requirements.
We’ve compiled information for the 450,000 New Yorkers who will lose health care coverage on July 1.
In May, state lawmakers passed a $269 billion budget after haggling for months over thousands of line items and policies affecting New Yorkers.
We’ve compiled information for SNAP recipients in New York on the changing work requirements.
Our searchable database breaks down the most consequential decisions Albany politicians made on climate, immigration, housing, schools, taxes, and more.
We answer your questions on the state’s notoriously opaque budget process.
Amid abortion bans and rising digital surveillance, Albany lawmakers are revisiting an effort to stop companies from selling sensitive health information.
Unions want state leaders to sweeten their retirement packages. What would it cost, and what would it achieve?
The state’s universal pre-K funding model is notoriously complex. How does it actually work, and can the governor’s plan fix it?
We read the governor’s, Senate’s, and Assembly’s budget proposals — so you don’t have to.
The legislature left the climate law untouched for now, but Governor Kathy Hochul could still push for changes in coming weeks.
The bill would dissolve contracts that allow federal immigration authorities to use county jails, but would leave more informal collaboration with local law enforcement untouched.
Outgoing Comptroller Brad Lander wants the city’s pension funds to reconsider $42 billion in investments with the firm, but it may fall to his successor to take action.
Voters across the state are scratching their chins about a question on their ballots concerning an Adirondacks winter sports facility. Here’s what’s going on.
The federal government shutdown and new work requirements will throw New York’s food stamps program into chaos.
The initiative to resettle asylum seekers outside New York City reached half the targeted number of familes. ICE has deported some participants.
Massive changes are coming to the state’s comprehensive, low-cost healthcare plan.
Nonprofit hospitals are required to help those struggling with medical debt, but critics say their policies are poorly advertised and underutilized.
Learn the income thresholds, deadlines, and free support services that help New Yorkers shave down or sometimes completely erase medical debt.
Our searchable database breaks down what was proposed and what made it in this year’s budget among key topics like education, family policy, criminal justice, climate, and more.