April 2, 2011 By Kate Breslin, President and CEO, Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy (SCAA) The Governor and Legislative leaders have reached agreement on the 2011-12 State Budget. Bill…
…Aid to Localities Budget Appropriation Bill A.4003-E. Health budget legislative changes are in A.4009-D. For all the actual budget legislation, go to: http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/2011Budget/?sec=finalbills or http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us and enter the bill number….
…Authorities, and Commissions, which has oversight on the MTA, and State Senator Marty Golden, who along with Brennan has sponsored a transit “lock box” bill in the legislature. A dozen…
…that anymore. And I remember Albert Shanker and Randy Weingarten who pushed the teachers’ rights way past everyone else’s. And you know what? Education for the children didn’t improve. The…
…accident and all body parts injured. STATEMENTS: Injured, in shock and fearful of losing a good job workers are easily intimidated. Too often, employers try to bully the accident victim…
March 30, 2011 By Thomas DiNapoli, NYS Comptroller The City’s decision to reduce its use of consultants makes sense. There’s a time and a place for outsourcing projects, but it…
…and all the killing and destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan,” he said. “It’s illegal, and we need to stop it, and put that money to work here at home, for…
…contractors who wanted to lower their labor costs by as much as 25 percent. Developers, too, were aiming at labor savings of 20 percent. The one big problem for the…
…passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as more and more American retirees find themselves in greater jeopardy since this legislation was signed to law. The law did…
…than half are widows and other elderly women. Older single Hispanic, Asian American, and African American women rely on it for 90% of their income. Social Security benefits are…
