state budget

Catch up on all the week's news with the WAER News Round-up.

NYS Public Employees Federation is launching the Respect Us, Protect Us, Pay Us campaign to address problems salaries and short staffing for social workers.

Home health care workers and their allies say a proposal by Gov. Kathy Hochul would unfairly return home care workers back to the minimum wage, after receiving an increase last year.

Both Democrats and Republicans are voicing issues about Governor Kathy Hochul's budget proposal, particularly raising taxes and increased spending.

The City of Syracuse wants to partner with a Finger Lakes company to provide affordable high-speed internet, an update on the region's first collaborative school focused on science and the arts, and more in the WAER News Round-Up.

In proposed reform, drugmakers would have to be more public with their information regarding price changes.

Here are some highlights of the $220 billion spending plan, and varying perspectives on what's in it.

Governor Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers gave up on the chance of meeting the state’s budget deadline when final agreements on the spending plan and related items failed to emerge in time. The Senate and Assembly adjourned until Monday, when they say they will try again to reach an accord.

Government watchdog groups are making a push to include ethics reform in the state budget. Governor Kathy Hochul promised to overhaul the state’s troubled ethics oversight commission, but so far, the proposal has not been agreed to by the Legislature.

The negotiations of proposal of aid undocumented workers have come to the last moment.