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At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, students in public schools across the state, including Valley Stream, received breakfasts and hot lunches at no charge, but the pandemic emergency benefit …

There's about six months left in New York's fiscal year.

The mid-year budget report recommends that the state place limits on how much it spends to house and feed the migrants coming to New York.

Voters are watching ahead of the Nov. 7 election how Democrat Justin Brannan and Republican Ari Kagan respond to the bloodshed in the Middle East and its fallout in New York.

The DOB reported the state will spend nearly $2 billion on the migrant crisis by next April.

Gov. Hochul appointed the new director in late July.

Gotham Gazette is an online publication covering New York policy and politics as well as news on public safety, transportation, education, finance and more.

The state’s top money manager painted a bleak fiscal future for New York in a sobering report released Tuesday, estimating a jaw-dropping deficit of $36.4 billion by 2027.

2023 may be the last year in a while that Governor Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers dont have to worry about holding back on state spending. A new financial forecast released by the governors budget office shows future deficits doubling next year.

The state Assembly is returning next week and advocates hope lawmakers will approve a bill to expand subsidized health care coverage.