Vetoed bill would have given public assistance recipients across the state the same protections for those in New York City.
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How much is your meal?
The Urban Institute has a new report out analyzing the “low-income meal costs” in counties versus the maximum per-meal SNAP benefit. Its not-so-shocking conclusion is that in 99 percent of US counties, the per-meal benefit is less than the actual cost of a meal. The maximum per-meal SNAP benefit is $1.86, but in Monroe County, […]
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Care costs
Two-parent families in New York spend, on average, 16.5 percent of their annual income on child care, according to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s office. Single mothers, on average, spend more than 57 percent of their income on child care, the office says. Parents in the Rochester-Finger Lakes area face estimated full-time day care costs of up […]
