Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul have announced budget proposals for the coming year that are remarkably similar. They ...

"I want to partner with the legislature put our State on a pathway toward universal child care," Governor Kathy Hochul said ...

The BABY benefit is just one of various proposals in Hochul’s budget designed to aid child-rearing New Yorkers, including an ...

There is one piece of genuinely good news: Hochul wisely has built up the state’s reserves, which now amount to more than $21 ...

Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul outlined a $252 billion state spending plan on Tuesday — a plan that has garnered mixed reactions from state lawmakers, advocates and lobbyists in Albany. It's got popular, ...

The statewide teachers union is celebrating Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed investments in education in the state budget.

In her executive budget, Hochul included $13.5 million for schools that need help in purchasing pouches or cubbies to store cell phones during the school day. The Guilderland superintendent, Marie ...

New York students may no longer have cell phones with them from “bell to bell” under Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposed ban, but ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has rolled out a $252 billion budget that calls for tax cuts, expanded child credits and record ...

ALBANY – Buffalo faces a budget deficit projected to be in the tens of millions. Niagara Falls seeks financial help for its water, wastewater and highway infrastructure systems. Several Western ...

Hochul’s plan is projected to reduce child poverty statewide by 8.2% when fully implemented and by 17.7% when combined with other measures, such as expanded subsidized child care. For example, a ...

State lawmakers leading the fight to achieve universal child care coverage said they back the child care investments Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced so far, but hope she’ll include more robust ...