Albany spends heavily of incentives and business economic development programs.
Many departments and Empire State Development manage programs at the state level. Split up into ten regions, a great sum of money is awarded via the Consolidated Funding Applications (CFA) program.
In 2019, NYS set a budget of $171B, see the FY 2019 Enacted Budget Financial Plan. Visit the New York State Budget page, and see Utica City Budget (and others) at the main Budget page.
March 21, 2017 - In story titled, Upstate New York gets $2.3 billion gift in Republican health care bill, we learn...
New York has one of the nation's more generous Medicaid programs -- it provided benefits to low-income adults even before the Affordable Care Act was passed -- and now covers roughly 6.4 million people (including Children's Health Insurance Program). That's about one-third of the state's population. It spent just under $60 billion a year on Medicaid in fiscal 2015, with just over half of that coming from the federal government.
<>March 22, 2011 - Center for Justice & Democracy says, Saving Medicaid $213 Million By Capping Hospital Salaries, Not Patient's Rights, and the studies footnotes...
1) Executive Order No. 5.
2) Medicaid Redesign: Status Of Original Ideas.
3) See, e.g., Editorial, “Medicaid and the N.Y. Budget: A Bad Deal on Malpractice,” New York Times, March 12, 2011.
4) See, Center for Justice & Democracy: Caps Do Not Lower Insurance Premiums for Doctors, March 2011.
5) Editorial, “Back to the Operating Table”, Times Union, March 18, 2011.
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