Julia Rock

2 days ago | thecity.nyc | Julia Rock

The state budget approved by legislators last week gives $350 million in additional funding to help New York City continue providing child care vouchers to low-income families — if the city throws in the same amount of its own money. There’s another major caveat buried in the fine print: The state is raising the minimum amount that New York City must spend on the program to $328 million a year. Even if the city doesn’t want to pay to get the matching funds, the new requirement could force it to.

3 days ago | pressrepublican.com | Julia Rock

— This story first appeared in New York Focus, a non-profit news publication investigating New York state politics. Sign up for their stories at nysfocus.com/newsletter. Labor unions and business lobbyists successfully convinced Governor Kathy Hochul to pay off New York’s $6.2 billion unemployment insurance debt — and boost unemployment benefits for the first time in six years — as part of her final budget agreement with the state legislature.

5 days ago | poststar.com | Julia Rock

ALBANY—Labor unions and business lobbyists successfully convinced Governor Kathy Hochul to pay off New York’s $6.2 billion unemployment insurance debt — and boost unemployment benefits for the first time in six years — as part of her final budget agreement with the state legislature. New York owed the money after borrowing from the federal government to cover pandemic-era unemployment claims.

6 days ago | thedailystar.com | Julia Rock

Labor unions and business lobbyists successfully convinced Gov. Kathy Hochul to pay off New York’s $6.2 billion unemployment insurance debt — and boost unemployment benefits for the first time in six years — as part of her final budget agreement with the state legislature. New York owed the money after borrowing from the federal government to cover pandemic-era unemployment claims.

1 week ago | niagara-gazette.com | Julia Rock

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