
New York Focus is covering the fault lines in this year’s $250 billion state budget negotiations.

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.

A peek behind the curtain of how our reporters were able to analyze hundreds of pages of complicated budget documents (without losing their minds).

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.

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.