The BABY benefit is just one of various proposals in Hochul’s budget designed to aid child-rearing New Yorkers, including an ...

"I want to partner with the legislature put our State on a pathway toward universal child care," Governor Kathy Hochul said ...

Overall, the governor's proposed budget would increase spending by $8.6 billion, including a $5.3 billion surplus.

There is one piece of genuinely good news: Hochul wisely has built up the state’s reserves, which now amount to more than $21 billion. Those rightly are put aside for a “rainy day” — a downturn, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump posted on TruthSocial that a woman who receives child support from a man can no longer claim the ...

In 2022, the latest year figures are available, the child poverty rate in New York was nearly 19% — a figure that exceeds the ...

Hochul’s executive proposal is $19 billion or 8.3% higher than last year’s proposal and $36 billion or 16% higher than her ...

The credit, which goes further than Gov. Hochul's proposed increase to the Empire State Child Credit, will make a real ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has rolled out a $252 billion budget that calls for tax cuts, expanded child credits and record ...

Hochul, who is up for reelection next year, also touted previously announced plans to make free school meals universal for ...

Gov. Hochul gave her annual State of the State address, outlining a series of policies designed to uplift New York’s ...

New York’s Catholic bishops are supporting a proposal from Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul to increase the state’s child tax credit — an effort to address New York’s stubbornly high child ...