The organizations that New York City contracts to deliver everything from essential health and homeless services to youth and senior programing are striking for better compensation in the next city ...

Funding for the City University of New York, CUNY, is among a number of major focus issues as elected officials negotiate a new state budget this month and a new city budget by July. Lawmakers, ...

New York’s proposed Working Families Tax Credit has the power to lift up millions of mothers – it's time for Albany to pass it. I am a single mother of four children between the ages of 5 and 17, all ...

March 3, 2023 - Max Politics Podcast: Borough President Vanessa Gibson on the State of the Bronx Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson joined the show to discuss her first State of the Borough ...

When New York ended its moratorium on evictions a year ago, many people—from tenants to housing advocates to the public at large—braced for mass eviction filings in housing courts. One year later, ...

February 2, 2023 - Max Politics Podcast: Borough President Mark Levine's Vision for Manhattan Manhattan Borough President Mark Levine joined the show to discuss his new State of the Borough speech and ...

Voters in the fall of 2024 will have a chance to enshrine civil rights protections for women, LGBTQ people, and abortion access into the state constitution after lawmakers on Tuesday pass the New York ...

While inflation is unsettling for many of us, for fellow New Yorkers who were already struggling financially, it can be catastrophic. Imagine entering a store with only $50 to buy your family’s ...

New York State has made little progress bringing 1,000 shuttered psychiatric beds back into service after they were closed during the covid pandemic, raising questions about a signature element of the ...

A long-time UFT chapter leader I know used to joke, “There are two things wrong with our union—the leadership and the membership.” I’ve been very involved with the teachers union, both in opposition ...

Approximately 5.7 million New Yorkers across the state cast ballots in one of the closest races for governor in over two decades, according to unofficial 2022 election data. Some votes, especially ...

Voters across New York have approved $4.2 billion in state borrowing proposed by Governor Kathy Hochul and the State Legislature to pay for major projects environmentalists say are key to developing a ...