One week in June, only a third of the people who called the Labor Department’s unemployment help line reached a real person.
Julia Rock, New York Focus
Posted inLabor & Employment
An Upstate orchard is putting new farmworker protections to the test
New York’s farm labor law was meant to transform life for agricultural workers. One apple farm shows how hard that may be.
Posted inHousing
New York State council issues child poverty recommendations
An advisory group set up under a 2021 state law finalized its proposals to cut child poverty in half.
Posted inGovernment & Politics
Washington Failed to Expand the Child Tax Credit. Can Albany Get Kids Out of Poverty Instead?
One in five kids in New York live in poverty. Legislators are pushing Hochul to fulfill her promise to cut that rate in half.