Assembly Budget Includes Funding for Vital Human Services
Mar 15, 2017
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie today announced the Assembly's SFY 2017-18 Budget includes funding to ensure direct care workers are paid fair livable wages as well as a new proposal to prevent and reduce homelessness across the state. The spending plan...
Assembly Passes Bill to Set Workload Standards for Child Protective Service Workers
Jun 16, 2016
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Children and Families Committee Chair Donna Lupardo and Social Services Committee Chair Andrew Hevesi announced the passage of legislation to limit the active caseload for child protective services (CPS) workers to 15 active...
Speaker Heastie Announces SFY 2016-17 Budget Details Supporting Working New York Families
Apr 6, 2016
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Social Services Committee Chair Andrew Hevesi and Children and Families Committee Chair Donna Lupardo today announced the approved SFY 2016-17 Budget includes increased funding to help improve the lives of individuals and...
Assembly Budget Boosts Child Care Support for Working Families
Mar 10, 2016
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Children and Families Committee Chair Donna Lupardo today announced that the Assembly's SFY 2016-17 one-house budget proposal invests $83.7 million to support new child care subsidies, afterschool care, facilitated enrollment...
Speaker Heastie Appoints Anti-Poverty Work Group
Jan 29, 2016
Speaker Carl Heastie today announced that he has appointed an Assembly Majority work group to undertake an evaluation of the drastic increase of New Yorkers living in poverty and identify solutions to combat it. "Nearly 1.4 million people in this state...
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