Details are emerging on New York’s $212 billion state budget deal.
The agreement includes:
- A
record $29.5 billion in schools aid
- $2.4 billion for child care
- $2.1 billion for excluded workers
- $111 billion in total state operating funds
- $212 billion in all funds spending
- $29 billion in public and private green economy
investments
- $2.4 billion for
rent and homeowner relief
- $1 billion for small business recovery
- Legalizing mobile sports betting
- A first-in-the-nation plan to make broadband internet
affordable
- Implementing
comprehensive nursing home reforms
The budget rejects Gov.
Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposed closure of Rockland Children's Psychiatric Center.
Each year the facility helps over 100 at-risk kids with varying
mental health challenges.
Gov. Cuomo and lawmakers have agreed to raise taxes on the wealthy and on large corporations.