The city’s hospital system will be hit with a long-anticipated $300-million cut in Federal aid.

"All of this comes as the Citizens Budget Commission has come out with the kind of analysis that state legislators should read before they vote on the next round of increases for state aid to education."

The Citizens Budget Commission has released a report on where the funding for education comes from in New York State. David Friedfel, Director of State Studies at the Citizens Budget Commission, analyzed the report with Susan.

The Citizens Budget Commission is out with a report comparing the relative tax effort, or amount of local taxes that go toward schools in various areas of the state.

Sixty days ago — after a derailment and a series of delay-plagued morning commutes — Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered the MTA to conduct a review of its management structure and its capital plan. Wednesday was the deadline. But instead of releasing a plan, the agency said there wouldn't be one.

Sixty days ago Monday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo took to the stage of the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan and announced a top-to-bottom review of the calcified organization that runs the subway system.

The CBC concluded that just 26 percent of the total $3.4 billion in claimed savings are recurring.

As numerous labor contracts for thousands of city employees begin to expire, the de Blasio administration is already in the midst of new talks with municipal unions.

Citing tens of thousands of jobs added to the city’s payroll under Mayor de Blasio, Republican mayoral hopeful Nicole Malliotakis said she’d enact a hiring freeze if elected.

The report, produced in collaboration with Citizens Budget Commission, analyzed the details of 144 library and cultural buildings that were completed between the 2010 and 2014 fiscal years, supplemented by dozens of expert interviews.

In the heat of a dispute between Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his MTA chairman Joe Lhota and Mayor Bill de Blasio over who should foot the bill for a nearly $1 billion subway stabilization plan, the MTA has a new foe: spurned New York City Council members.

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s proposed tax hike on wealthy New Yorkers is “not an appropriate way” to fund fixes to the city’s failing subway system, a major City Hall watchdog said Monday.