NY state

In the four years since NY Governor Kathy Hochul took office, the state budget has increase from $220 billion to $254 billion or 15% per year. Florida with a population of 23 million (vs NY at 20 million) has a budget of less than half at $117 billion. New York State's structural budget deficits, including a projected $22 billion-plus gap, are primarily driven by rapid spending growth in Medicaid and public education, along with costs for housing migrants and asylum seekers Take education as an example. New York now spends the most in any state at $36,293 per K-12 student and the national average is $20,000. NY state ranks 22 on test scores. For MN the cost is $20,700 and MN ranks number.