Kathy Hochul News

People enter and leave Elmhurst Hospital in Queens.

Budget

House Budget Bill Deals Big Blows to New York

May 22, 2025, 4:36 p.m.May 22, 2025, 7:40 p.m.

Some tax relief for the wealthy and tipped workers is overshadowed by billions in public benefits cuts poised to force New York to make tough spending choices on Medicaid and more.

State Budget

The State Is Making New York City Spend $275 Million More for Child Care Vouchers

May 12, 2025, 12:47 p.m.May 12, 2025, 2:40 p.m.

The state budget, finalized last week, increased the spending requirement on the city for the first time since the 1990s.

Governor Kathy Hochul speaks at the Vanderbilt YMCA in Midtown about proving tax breaks to families.

State Budget

Business Boosts Mark Hochul’s ‘Rainy Day’ Spending Plan

May 9, 2025, 4:28 p.m.May 9, 2025, 4:30 p.m.

The governor uses state reserves to pay down a $6 billion pandemic unemployment fund debt that had been burdening businesses, extends film credits and opens a rent-regulation exit for some landlords.

Albany

Budget Watchdogs Pan Hochul Spending Plan, Brace for Adams Proposal

April 29, 2025, 5:00 p.m.April 29, 2025, 5:00 p.m.

A $254 billion budget deal makes few provisions for massive federal cuts.

Prisons

Few Have Left Prison Under Hochul Early-Release Push

April 29, 2025, 5:00 a.m.April 30, 2025, 9:00 a.m.

Just 151 people have left state incarceration out of hundreds potentially eligible as state grapples with a shortage of correction officers. Housing restrictions are a big reason why.

Criminal Justice

Framework in Place to Roll Back Some of New York’s Discovery Reform Law

April 15, 2025, 8:17 p.m.April 15, 2025, 8:17 p.m.

That could give judges new discretion to determine the importance of missing evidence before deciding whether to dismiss a case.

An A/C unit sat in the window of a Washington Heights tenement building.

Utilities

Federal Cuts Shrink Heating and AC Aid Program, Leaving New Yorkers in the Cold

April 15, 2025, 1:10 p.m.April 15, 2025, 1:31 p.m.

Federal staff cuts and delayed funding limit access to the Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps over a million people across the state pay bills and get air conditioning units.

A pedestrian uses their phone in Manhattan.

Work

Payday Loan Apps Cost New Yorkers $500 Million, New Study Estimates

March 27, 2025, 5:00 a.m.March 27, 2025, 1:39 p.m.

New Economy Project and other groups urge governor to enforce interest rate limits, as the legislature weighs whether to expand or rein in the fintech industry’s reach.

Union rallied on the steps of City Hall to back raising the minimum wage to over $20 an hour.

Health

Hochul Digs in on Home Care Switch, Despite Labor Ally’s Call for Delay

March 21, 2025, 4:39 p.m.March 21, 2025, 4:39 p.m.

Influential health care union 1199SEIU urged postponing the April 1 start of a single to replace hundreds of companies the governor has called a costly “racket.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul walks out of Marcy Correctional Facility with barbed wire behind her. She walks with a man in a grey suit on the right and a woman in a beige suit on the left.

Criminal Justice

Prison Deaths and Strike Chaos Reveal Backsliding on Basic Reforms

March 17, 2025, 5:00 a.m.May 14, 2025, 4:54 p.m.

A promised prison overhaul is on a collision course with New York’s long history of keeping basic information about abuses and killings hidden from the public

Kathy Hochul

House Budget Bill Deals Big Blows to New York

The State Is Making New York City Spend $275 Million More for Child Care Vouchers

Business Boosts Mark Hochul’s ‘Rainy Day’ Spending Plan

Budget Watchdogs Pan Hochul Spending Plan, Brace for Adams Proposal

Few Have Left Prison Under Hochul Early-Release Push

Framework in Place to Roll Back Some of New York’s Discovery Reform Law

Federal Cuts Shrink Heating and AC Aid Program, Leaving New Yorkers in the Cold

Payday Loan Apps Cost New Yorkers $500 Million, New Study Estimates

Hochul Digs in on Home Care Switch, Despite Labor Ally’s Call for Delay

Prison Deaths and Strike Chaos Reveal Backsliding on Basic Reforms

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