A New York Focus investigation finds that the state can take up to seven years to resolve complaints against educators.

Thousands of New Yorkers have had their food benefits stolen. Meanwhile, Congress will likely move forward with major cuts to the lifeline program.

In rural New York, even some Republicans are frustrated as the administration halts $186 million in conservation payments to farmers.

A 2023 law is transforming the state power authority into one of New York’s biggest renewable developers. Some still want it to go further.

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.

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 candidates did not disclose Solidarity PAC’s fundraising role in campaign finance disclosures.

The mayor enlisted an army of contractors to build a one-stop benefits platform. Two years and $100 million later, the website is a skeleton of what it was supposed to be.

We read the governor’s, Senate’s, and Assembly’s budget proposals — so you don’t have to.

The compromise would reduce business taxes and raise the benefit level, but leave the program inadequately funded.

The biggest winners from the proposed break make well above New York’s median income.

The governor’s proposal could leave 24 districts with less Foundation Aid than expected. The one-house budgets aim to fix that.

Nonprofits form the backbone of the state’s social service sector, and they may be getting some overdue relief in this year’s budget.

The legislature rejected Hochul’s central public safety policy priorities while embracing proposals to increase prison oversight.

In New York, half of CIU exonerations involve prosecutorial misconduct, but DAs rarely acknowledge who got it wrong.

Here’s where the Senate, Assembly, and governor stand on funding New York’s green transition.

The budget plans set up a fight with Governor Kathy Hochul, who did not propose substantial new investments at all.

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.

In many cases, electrifying homes is cheaper, according to one new study.