Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers could lose their food benefits due to new SNAP work requirements, after the Trump administration phased them in months earlier than expected.
The board overseeing opioid lawsuit settlements is raising the alarm that New York could use the funds, which are meant to expand substance abuse initiatives, to backfill federal cuts.
The federal government shutdown and new work requirements will throw New York’s food stamps program into chaos.
Governor Kathy Hochul has yet to indicate whether, or how, New York might plug a funding hole for Empower+, a key energy affordability program.
Hochul appears to have snubbed advocates, providers, and unions, while they try to figure out how serious she is about universal child care.
Statewide diversion courts could keep thousands out of jail, but they’ll need more investments in treatment to succeed.
New York counties thought they had months to prepare to implement SNAP work requirements. Now, they have weeks.
The initiative to resettle asylum seekers outside New York City reached half the targeted number of familes. ICE has deported some participants.
The Migrant Relocation Assistance Program helped families leave crowded shelters and put down roots. Trump’s immigration crackdown is upending that.
Massive changes are coming to the state’s comprehensive, low-cost healthcare plan.
A PPL vice president admitted pre-contract talks between the company and New York’s health department, after denying it under oath last month.
Trump’s immigration crackdown is having a chilling effect on New Yorkers’ access to public benefits.
“New Yorkers did not agree to trade their right to privacy for the promise of free internet,” key committee chairs wrote to city officials.
Whether legislators should return to Albany this year to tackle historic cuts to Medicaid and food assistance has become a thorny political question.
The Adams administration is using its flagship broadband program to give police real-time access to NYCHA camera feeds — without telling anyone.
There are 1,500 families on the program waitlist in New York City alone, new state data shows.
Poverty rates among New York’s aging population are rising as the federal government pares back support for longstanding social service programs.
And the delays have gotten worse in recent months.
Fiscal advocates warn the governor and state lawmakers against punting a difficult discussion on how to deal with imminent cuts.
One week in June, only a third of the people who called the Labor Department’s unemployment help line reached a real person.