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The cost of helping hungry New Yorkers is about to go up by over $1 billion annually, and local taxpayers could foot the bill.
Later this fall, counties across the state will pay more to keep the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, running after a sharp decline ...
A Jefferson County sheriff’s deputy was patrolling near a strip mall in Watertown, 30 miles south of New York’s border with Canada, last December, when he spotted a Chevrolet cargo van. He noted three traffic violations: failing to turn on headlights, signaling improperly ...
A coalition seeking to overhaul the Brooklyn Democratic Party is “very likely” to file a lawsuit challenging the party chair’s eleventh-hour effort to upend an upcoming leadership vote.
On Wednesday evening, the chair of the party, Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn, announced a plan to dramatically expand who would vote in an upcoming internal party election to ...
When New York Focus learned that the leaders of an obscure, Long Island–based union were some of the highest paid union officials in the country, with four making over $1 million last year, we knew we had to dig deeper.
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Last year, nine people — all of them men — made more than $1 million as labor union officers. Five of them ran unions that represent professional athletes and Hollywood actors, many of whom are millionaires themselves.
And then there were four officers of an obscure union based on Long Island whose 23,000 members include grocery store clerks, home health aides, paramedi...