The architecture of universal child care, a core campaign promise of Mayor Mamdani, is being set in New York City today. But for many child care providers, the current system doesn’t work well enough ...

As the recent, historic mayoral election campaign demonstrated, the soaring costs and insufficient availability of quality child care continue to be matters of paramount importance to New Yorkers.

In this new report, the Center for New York City Affairs provides a roundup of data-driven insights on the challenges New York policymakers face in 2026 and practical strategies they can employ to ...

We started 2026 with incomplete employment data (largely thanks to the lag in jobs reports during the six-week-long federal government shutdown late in 2025). But based on what we did know, we ...

We are excited to share insights from our economic policy team as they relate to the latest city news. David A. Lee, CNYCA's fiscal policy analyst, writes why Mayor Mamdani’s executive budget proposal ...

New York State, like most states, exempts religious, charitable, and educational institutions, including hospitals from any property tax. This exemption is required under the New York State ...

Despite that, and even after more than nine months at City Hall, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s public school agenda remains in many respects a surprisingly blank slate. But the odds of that continuing seem ...

Scripture teaches that no person can successfully serve two masters. Similarly, common sense tells us that no organization can perform two inherently contradictory missions. Yet that is precisely what ...

Tomorrow, roughly one million students will begin classes in New York City public schools. Among them: almost 19,000 recently arrived migrant children who, with their families, have been bused here ...

This report documents the troubling racial and gender pay inequities that confront the 80,000 plus nonprofit workers providing human services under New York City government contracts. This workforce ...

Mohamed Obaidy, associate director of CNYCA's economic policy team, breaks down how income inequality and labor market polarization deepened in 2025, even as workers became more productive overall.