What are you getting for your city tax dollars?
In the decade since the final Bloomberg-era budget, city spending has soared by 12% above inflation.
New York spends far more, per person, than wealthy peers.
Until recently, the main culprit has been the massively ballooned size of the city workforce, mostly in education, with little to show, in terms of classroom results, to show for it.
But now, for the first time in decades, the city is placing an open-ended bet not on public services, however, overfunded, but on social- services.
Continue reading the entire piece here at the New York Post
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
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