I’ve never seen so many lawyers in my life - OJ rn

👀 The White House budget office has cleared a US Labor Department rule expected to expand overtime pay protections to millions more workers, signaling it will soon be released to the public.

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Esp interesting because Hochul got much of the credit for the quick rebid....

'[Schumer] drew on his half-century career in New York elected politics and engaged local leaders, including Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, in arranging for a 'rapid rebidding''

In 2021, New York's “first mom governor” signed a law committing to cut child poverty in half.

So far, Hochul's policies wouldn't get close to that goal. Lawmakers want to expand the child tax credit to lift thousands of kids out of poverty. Julia Rock
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New York has the fifth-highest rate of child poverty in the country.

After the federal government failed to expand the child tax credit, will Albany finish the job?

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The construction of America's newest nuclear plant (the first in 30 years) was disastrous. Depending whom you ask, Plant Vogtle's epic delays and budget overruns either mean we'd be crazy to build more nuclear in the US—or crazy not to. My story in @Grist: grist.org/energy/plant-v…

I didn’t feel the earthquake but I believe every woman who did

Assemblymember Jaime Williams is kind of a Republican after all? She’s in a Biden +50 district, but she’s filed to run on the GOP and Conservative lines too. With @EmilyNgo: politico.com/newsletters/ne…

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie confirms that bringing back IAIs to permit landlords to raise rents on stabilized apartments after improvements is on the table in budget talks. I reported that some rollbacks to the 2019 rent laws were brought up in talks cityandstateny.com/policy/2024/04…

Job! News! Today I start a new job as the education reporter at New York Focus. I’ve been so impressed with their work shining a much-needed light on Albany. Very excited to join them and help develop this important beat.
📩 Please send tips, etc: biancaNew York Focus.com

NEW: As wages have stagnated, the auto industry has faced a shortage of mechanics.

Unions joined their bosses to push for a bill to make car companies pay more. The companies threaten to increase car costs.
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This is an bananas NYC story courtesy of our friends The Markup: An AI chatbot touted by City Hall keeps telling biz people to break the law

Can you take workers tips? Can you discriminate? See what chatbot says 👇

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The Transportation Department told states they need to
measure and set greenhouse gas targets for their highways. A judge last night struck that down as agency overreach subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/0…

NEW: Kamala Harris Touts Homeland Security Program Encouraging Surveillance Of High Schoolers theintercept.com/2024/03/28/sec…

Pro-Israel spending is coming to state Legislative races - but when donors are revealed, we'll see if it's new money, or the same anti-progressive donors simply giving under a new name. politico.com/newsletters/ne…

National fuel oil firm accuses Mayor Eric Adams Adams' administration of bid-rigging by suddenly dumping them to favor Brooklyn firm that hired Adams' campaign lawyers as lobbyists and gave $$ to Adams' campaign
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Uchenna Bright and Denise Sheehan are confirmed to serve on the Public Service Commission by the Senate.

Governor Kathy Hochul's first appointments to the powerful utility regulator since she became governor. Still one open seat unaccounted for...

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Julie Tighe in running for DEC commissioner bloomberglaw.com/bloomberglawne…

Great scoop from Julia Rock and Chris Gelardi: A new pro-Israel PAC is backing primary opponents to DSA- and WFP-endorsed candidates in New York state. It's like a state-level version of AIPAC. nysfocus.com/2024/03/26/isr…

'The missing men are from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico ... All of them came to the city for a better life, he said — not necessarily for themselves, but for the loved ones they left behind in their home countries.'
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