The proposal would raise the credit to a maximum of $1,000 per child — the largest expansion in state history.

Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to raise the state child tax credit to up to $1,000 for each baby and small child, and up to $500 for ...

Average pay for workers in Onondaga County fell in the second quarter of 2024 from a two-decade high set early last year. Workers in the county made an average of $1,295 a week in the second quarter, ...

A clothing drive at White Branch Libraryis bundling up the surrounding Northside community, and getting everyone ready for a ...

Listen to this article In March 1968 at one of his final speeches before his murder, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

A list of programs nationally provide new mothers, parents with no-strings-attached cash payments. See how NY wants to use ...

Onondaga County will receive state funding to help push anti-poverty funds to community resources and programs.

The council voted Wednesday to endorse a $9 billion package of proposals that it estimates would provide financial support to more than 1.5 million families. The most impactful proposal, to expand and ...

Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse are in the top 10 US cities for child poverty, with more than 40 percent of kids there living below the poverty line. The state has already taken some steps since ...

Census data determined that Syracuse has one of the highest child poverty rate among large U.S. cities, with 45% of children below the federal poverty line. Rochester and even Buffalo also rank ...

New York state’s Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council (CPRAC) voted on Wednesday to advance $9 billion of child poverty reduction recommendations to Gov. Kathy Hochul. The hope is that she ...