Big Apple vs. Oranges: Why NYC pays more and gets far less than Florida
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How union contracts and institutional resistance to efficiency drive NYC's massive budget, creating costly lessons for cities nationwide.
Ken Girardin is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York.
None of this excuses Gotham’s excess. To the contrary, the quest for rage-clicks with apples-to-oranges comparisons risks numbing Americans to even more extreme parts of NYC’s spending — and the lessons the rest of the country should draw.
The biggest piece of the NYC budget, the public school system, is best viewed as a union jobs program for adults, shielded from scrutiny by what is often a greater focus on equity than on outcomes. It’s on track to make up roughly one-third of city spending next year.
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