Episodios

  • Tom DiNapoli talks OT, unclaimed funds and using reserves

    Tom DiNapoli talks OT, unclaimed funds and using reserves
    Jul 22 2025
    July 22, 2025 - State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli visits the studio to discuss increasing overtime hours and costs from the state workforce, the distribution of unclaimed funds, and whether state policymakers should be tapping into reserve funds to offset federal cuts.
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    30 m
  • 'Big Beautiful Bill' to disrupt New York health care landscape

    'Big Beautiful Bill' to disrupt New York health care landscape
    Jul 22 2025
    July 22, 2025 - The "Big Beautiful Bill" adopted in July could have massive ramifications for New York's health care system, according to Paul Francis, chair of the Step Two Policy Project. We explore cuts in federal aid to health care providers, New Yorkers losing their state-provided health insurance, and how state policymakers might respond to this new landscape.
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    29 m
  • Demand for food assistance persists and could get worse

    Demand for food assistance persists and could get worse
    Jul 21 2025
    July 21, 2025 - Dan Egan, the outgoing head of Feeding New York State, reflects on the demand for food assistance over the last six years and considers how hungry New Yorkers will be affected by changes in Washington D.C.
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    18 m
  • The challenge of realizing the master plan on aging

    The challenge of realizing the master plan on aging
    Jul 18 2025
    July 18, 2025 - We check in with Adam Herbst, a former top health official in the state and now a partner with Sheppard Mullin, who describes the funding demands and other implementation challenges for the state master plan on aging.
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    12 m
  • Hochul administration unveils master plan on aging

    Hochul administration unveils master plan on aging
    Jul 18 2025
    July 18, 2025 - State Health Commissioner Jim McDonald and State Aging Director Greg Olsen explain how the state's master plan on aging came together, the process of evaluating proposals, and why federal spending cuts could impact implementation.
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    24 m
  • What does Zohran Mamdani's victory mean for the DSA?

    What does Zohran Mamdani's victory mean for the DSA?
    Jul 17 2025
    July 17, 2025 - On this excerpt from Dispatches from Planet Albany, we talk with Assemblymember Phara Souffrant Forrest, a Brooklyn Democrat, and NYC DSA Co-Chair Grace Mauser about the Democratic Socialists rallying behind Zohran Mamdani's mayoral campaign and how they build support for his agenda in Albany.
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    10 m
  • The case for targeting 'unfair' business practices

    The case for targeting 'unfair' business practices
    Jul 17 2025
    July 16, 2025 - Assemblymember Micah Lasher, a Manhattan Democrat, talks about legislation empowering the state attorney general's office to go after unfair business practices and addresses a critique that the measures doesn't go far enough.
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    12 m
  • Meeting the needs of New York's veterans

    Meeting the needs of New York's veterans
    Jul 17 2025
    July 16, 2025 - We check in with Benjamin Pomerance, deputy counsel at the state Department of Veterans' Services, to discuss services for marginalized veterans, addressing the risk of suicide among veterans, and closing holes in the social safety net.
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    28 m