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They used the occasion to announce steps to further protect abortion rights in New York State.
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Governor Kathy Hochul has her highest numbers in nearly a year, while President Joe Biden’s popularity and performance ranking falls to a new low in blue New York.
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While Hochul is a Democrat, and both houses of the Legislature are led by Democrats, the governor’s budget is not guaranteed to be an easy sell to the Senate and Assembly.
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Gov. Hochul's budget plan holds line on spending increases, draws on reserves to fund migrant crisisThe $233 billion spending plan is 4.5 percent larger than last year's.
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Hochul addressed the sense of unease that New Yorkers feel about the economy and crime in her speech, including a crackdown on retail theft and a scaled-down plan to build more affordable housing to ease the state’s ongoing crisis.
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The governor is expected to, among other things, focus on easing the state’s affordable housing crisis.
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Hochul unveiled the first of what's expected to be a series of proposals ahead of next week's state of the state address.
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A previous plan that would have created 800,000 new housing units fell through during 2023 budget negotiations.
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New York’s Comptroller finds that the state’s nursing homes still lag in preparedness for another pandemic or infectious disease outbreak, two and a half years after a scandal surrounding thousands of nursing home deaths during COVID-19 that contributed to the resignation of a former governor.
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The new law establishes a task force to study the impact of slavery on present day New Yorkers, and look at the possibility of paying monetary reparations, among other things.