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The State Is Making New York City Spend $275 Million More for Child Care Vouchers
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 […]
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Voting Begins in Teachers Union Elections As Insurgents Vie to Unseat Mulgrew
With voting underway in the election for United Federation of Teachers leadership, longtime president Michael Mulgrew is facing insurgent challenges at a time when workers broadly have been willing to jettison veteran leaders — most recently 1199 SEIU president George Gresham. Mulgrew and two other candidates are seeking to head the second-largest public-sector union in the […]
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Tough Times for Tchotchke Trade with Trump Tariffs
Tarun Karmaker faces a tough choice: raise prices and lose sales, or leave them the same and make less. Karmaker owns Little Italy Gifts Center on Mulberry Street, and nearly all of his wholesale suppliers have already jacked up prices between 10 and 25%. Even imported Trump bobblehead dolls have gone up 50 cents, to […]
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Eric Adams Search Warrant Records Show Scramble to Evade FBI Scrutiny
A trove of documents from Mayor Eric Adams’ now-defunct criminal case released late Friday reveals extraordinary steps the mayor and his aides took to keep their communications secret — prompting the FBI to seek approval to unlock his many electronic devices by pressing the mayor’s fingers to devices or holding his head in front of […]
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Business Boosts Mark Hochul’s ‘Rainy Day’ Spending Plan
Two weeks ago, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced a budget deal that would set state spending at $254 billion, up more than 5% from last year, and would include her key priorities of a school cellphone ban, changes to criminal discovery laws, flexibility for involuntary confinement of mentally ill people and funding for the MTA capital […]
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