Governor Kathy Hochul

On January 1, the “new” in New York City did a lot of lifting. It was, of course, the first day on the job for (then) newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani and the city’s freshly raised minimum wage, courtesy of Governor Kathy Hochul and a statewide 2024 proposal that brought NYC’s lowest hourly rate to…

New year, new mayor, and a new minimum wage? That’s how New Yorkers are entering these first hours of 2026, with Zohran Mamdani now officially (no longer questionably) the 112th mayor of NYC, and an immediately in-effect boost to the paychecks of minimum wage workers across the city. The clock hitting twelve on January 1…

Don’t skip that trip to the mailbox this week—there’s a solid chance you’ve got a few hundred dollars from the state waiting for you to turn the key. You read that right. It’s “inflation refund” season, thanks to Governor Kathy Hochul, whose administration began mailing out checks to more than 8 million eligible New Yorkers…