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New Yorkers Pay When Big Money Plays: The Case for Public Financing of Elections
2009 – May 26 New Yorkers Pay When Big Money Plays: The Case for Public Financing of Elections (click to download PDF) This report adds to the mounting evidence that the influence of campaign
Read More »Hospital Financial Assistance Programs: Are New York Hospitals Complying with New Requirements?
2008 – March Hospital Financial Assistance Programs: Are New York Hospitals Complying with New Requirements? (click to download PDF) In April of 2006, New York State enacted a groundbreaking law providing protections for uninsured
Read More »The New York Asset Building Report Card: How New York Ranks Among the 50 States in Individual Asset Development
2003 – May The New York Asset Building Report Card: How New York Ranks Among the 50 States in Individual Asset Development (click to download PDF) Most discussions of economic well-being in America focus
Read More »Contract Capers: Excess Cost and Politics in MTA Contracting
2002 – December 12 Contract Capers: Excess Cost and Politics in MTA Contracting (click to download PDF) As part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s $17.1 billion 2000-2004 Capital Program Plan, 71 percent of the
Read More »Your Privacy is Important to Us?
2001 – October Your Privacy is Important to Us? (click to download PDF) In 1999, Congress allowed large financial corporations – banks, brokerage firms and insurance companies – to merge when it passed the
Read More »The Consumers’ Guide to New York’s Managed Care Bill of Rights
2001 – September The Consumers’ Guide to New York’s Managed Care Bill of Rights (click to download PDF) This guide explains how to use the rights and protections that New York State grants health
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