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Education
More Money, Little Accountability
New York Continues to Increase State School Aid
October 03, 2022
New York State’s schools spend nearly twice the national average per student, without delivering above-average results in achievement.
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Transportation
Prioritizing the MTA's Critical Capital Needs
What to Do When You Can’t Do It All
August 23, 2022
The MTA has significant needs for capital investment, from signal modernization and track improvements to new subway and train cars to making stations across the system accessible.
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Health Care
Narrowing New York's Health Insurance Coverage Gap
January 11, 2022
More than 1 million New Yorkers remained uninsured and New York ranks seventh among states on coverage.
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State Budget
New York's Endangered Future
Debt Beyond Our Means
September 21, 2005
New York State's debt obligations will require current and future taxpayers to bear a burden that creates a competitive disadvantage with the other states. The core issue is that New York has no effective legal limits on the amount of debt it can assume. CBC advocates for short-run and long-run measures; in the near term, voters should reject bond referendums such as the Transportation Bond Act of 2005 until debt is brought under control, and in the long-run the State must strike a balance between adequate infrastructure investment and a competitive debt burden.
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Education
Can New York Get An A In School Finance Reform?
January 01, 2005
The State of New York faces a major challenge stemming from a 2003 ruling by the Court of Appeals, the State’s highest court, which found that the more than 1 million children in New York City’s public schools were not provided with the sound basic education guaranteed to them by the State Constitution. CBC addresses two fundamental questions: Where should the money come from? What changes other than more money are essential to improving educational outcomes?
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Health Care
Better Managing New York State's Health Insurance Subsidy Programs
September 30, 2001
Report by the CBC that analyzes the problems that limit the impact of the subsidized health insurance programs and advocates a two-stage strategy - an integrated eligibility system and expanding integrated eligibility to other programs - to make the health insurance subsidy programs work more effectively and efficiently.
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Capital Spending
An Affordable Debt Policy for New York State and New York City
October 17, 2000
Presents a new approach for determining how much the State and City should borrow, including criteria for deciding how much state and local debt is affordable.