Room Eight | Category | New York

New York City’s FY 2017 Budget Proposal: More for Those Who Have More Leaves Less for Those Who Have Less

As noted in my prior post, the current New York City budget documents are being presented in a way...

One of Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s best innovations, from a truth telling point of view, was the introduction of a...

I will once again end a tabulation of state and local government data from the U.S. Census Bureau with...

I became a citizen of the USA (United States of Amnesia) in 1996. The same day I swore in...

There are places in this country, generally rural areas, where people don’t get very much from state and local...

Health care and social assistance, along with payments to individuals, account for the largest share of government spending for...

One of the big issues in last year’s New York City budget negotiations was the level of police staffing....

In the United States, more government workers are employed in elementary and secondary education than any in other local...

BOB DYLAN: “Now the bricks lay on Grand Street Where the neon madmen climb They all fall there so perfectly...

Relative to population and even, in some places, in absolute numbers, state and local government employment has fallen in...