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From the Excluded Worker Fund to the 421-a property tax break, heres what didnt make it into New Yorks final budget deal.

California's undocumented immigrants risked their lives working during the pandemic. Lawmakers want to pay them unemployment benefits.

Business owners want the state to use federal relief aid to cover increasing costs in annual employer payroll taxes.

Business owners want the state to use federal relief aid to cover increasing costs in annual employer payroll taxes.

NEW YORK—Biking in the rain, Jose “Manny” Ramirez dodges cars and pedestrians on the busy streets of Manhattan. He rushes from McDonald’s to an elderly couple, from the South Bronx to the Upper East Side, and then back again.

New Yorks uninsured rate would drop further below 5% by expanding coverage to group of currently ineligible immigrants, advocates say. What to know

Business owners want the state to use federal relief aid to cover increasing costs in annual employer payroll taxes.

NEW YORK—Biking in the rain, Jose “Manny” Ramirez dodges cars and pedestrians on the busy streets of Manhattan. He rushes from McDonald’s to an elderly couple, from the South Bronx to the Upper East Side, and then back again.

New Yorks uninsured rate would drop further below 5% by expanding coverage to group of currently ineligible immigrants, advocates say. What to know

New York State was rightly celebrated for its 2021 $2.1 billion dollar Excluded Worker Fund (EWF), providing direct payments to essential, low-income, immigrant workers and their families who had suffered economic loss due to the pandemic but were excluded from some federal pandemic relief efforts, including unemployment insurance and payments from the federal CARES Act.