New York’s prison agency is interpreting key provisions of a landmark parole reform law to keep more people locked up. A lead sponsor of the legislation calls it ‘appalling.’
New York
Posted inBuilding Back America
Tearing Down Highways to Revitalize Communities—and Create Jobs
New projects in Black and brown neighborhoods divided by the mid-century interstate highway push can be job creation engines.
Posted inEconomic Policy
New York Begins Rulemaking to Stop Corporate Profiteering
The attorney general’s office will seek to apply the state’s price-gouging law to opportunistic price increases that use high inflation as an excuse.
Posted inTransportation
Is Amtrak Up to Crossing the Hudson?
As billions flow to the Gateway Program’s Hudson River megaproject for new bridges and tunnels, an audit finds that Amtrak has serious work to do—in-house.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Nursing Home Slumlord Manifesto
In a surreal new lawsuit, New York nursing home owners say they make nearly a billion dollars a year understaffing homes and shortchanging patients.
Posted inPolitics
State Dems Need to Think Big. Bigger.
Joe Biden’s legacy could come down to blue-state governors.
Posted inEducation in America
Will the Nation’s Largest Urban University System Become Free?
After years of austerity and a crippling pandemic, City University of New York is struggling to get students the choice of classwork they want.
Posted inHousing
Missed Measurement: We Have No Idea How Many Evictions There Are
There is no federal data on evictions, keeping policymakers blind during a moment of uncertainty.
Posted inHousing
America’s Hidden Fire Kindling
Federally subsidized housing complexes, many of them owned by for-profit investors, fail to enforce basic safety standards.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Can a Billionaire’s Son Save Local Media—and a City?
A community news service in New York’s Hudson Valley is finding out the hard way.