Already, the state’s green energy businesses are feeling the impact of the pending Congressional spending bill that includes ...

New Yorkers across the state describe how sweeping federal cuts to Medicaid and food assistance could derail their lives.

At least a third of New York counties told the Legal Action Center that they currently provide some form of Medicaid ...

Four farms upstate won't sign or follow contracts awarded by state-appointed arbitrators after bargaining stalled.

The prison agency has suspended solitary confinement restrictions since a corrections officers strike in February.

Statewide spending on hotels has more than tripled in recent years. The shift away from shelters has prevented families from ...

Mamdani’s plans for universal child care, fare-free transit, and affordable housing rely on Albany getting on board.

The number of families and individuals placed in hotels doubled in the two years following the end of New York’s eviction moratorium in 2022. As the population in hotels shot up, so did the bill. Over ...

Last spring, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli — the steward of the state’s $273 billion pension fund — announced a policy to ...

Joel Jacobs is a data reporter at ProPublica. Previously, he was a data reporter on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s ...

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