ALBANY -- New York lawmakers said they reached a "conceptual" deal on the state budget late Wednesday, though they quickly acknowledged they haven't s...

By Jill Colvin, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer NEW YORK CITY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo unveiled his 2013 budget plan Tuesday, including billions ...

Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature have successfully tackled serious budget issues in recent years, but important challenges remain.

As the New York City Council grapples with a budget that proposes cuts to child care, senior services and homeless shelters, to name a few, the handouts to corporations and big banks with little accountability or transparency are appalling.

ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York is poised to embark on a large economic development program, provide more assistance to the poor, and increase spending on pu...

Governor Cuomo may have stressed the need to stimulate New York's sluggish economy, but are legislators in such dire need of cashflow to start selling...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday tried to turn his annual budget address into a kickoff for taming Albany's status quo of politics an...

In March, NY adopted a budget where a $10 billion budget shortfall was closed by cuts in education, health, and human services. These cuts will have profoundly negative effects on NY's most vulnerable citizens.

It looks as though Governor Andrew Cuomo has scored big: He finessed an on-time budget agreement between top legislators in the Senate and Assembly on...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo said a tentative $132.5 billion state budget deal he struck with legislative leaders Sunday was nothing less than hi...

MANHATTAN -- Millionaires across New York State are banding together to ask for more taxes. About 100 wealthy New Yorkers, including actor Mark...

The economic development model that came to dominate during the 1970s -- tax breaks for big businesses, rather than public investment in infrastructure and services -- is still in full force.

New York has the solution to the deficit problem: EBAY. The Daily News reported that the government made "$1.3 million last year by selling its unwan...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is considering cutting as many as 15,000 state workers in an effort to shrink the state's $9 billion budget gap. The workforce re...

Governor Cuomo's plan to give a tax break to the wealthy gets it wrong. The root of New York's fiscal problems isn't high taxes or excessive spending. It's that we tax the wrong people.

New York State lived up to its reputation, first reported six years ago by the Brennan Center for Justice, as having "the most dysfunctional legislature in the United States."

By Heather Grossmann DNAinfo News Editor MANHATTAN -- New York State finally passed it's four-month late budget with the State Senate's approved o...

Gov. Paterson is preparing to slash the state's workforce. Escalating his battle with public employee unions, Paterson said Monday planning for layof...

The only good way to end New York state's fiscal crisis is job creation and economic growth -- but much of state government doesn't seem to have gotten the message.

ALBANY, N.Y. (Associated Press) -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Albany's plan for a state a budget will be a big help -- for Connecticut...

Payments to retired government workers are coming at the expense of cutbacks in the city's classrooms. Talk about intergenerational injustice. The current New York City and New York State budget crises are hitting programs that build for the future at the expense of paying bills due today.

The state fiscal year is nearly one-quarter over -- and there's still no adopted state budget. Governor Paterson has twice rammed through extenders to keep the state government operating.

Queens County Economic Forecast Speech to the Long Island City Business Development Corporation March 18, 2010 While the focus of the Queens Econom...

Gov. Paterson threw cold water on the convention plans of Democrats and Republicans Tuesday. Fed up with the lack of progress in state budget negotia...