“Even though New York doesn’t show up at the high end of spending as a share of the budget — because we spend so much on everything — it’s a very high number in anyone’s book in absolute terms,” said Howard Chernick, a professor emeritus of economics at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, who developed the data set used here with Adam Langley at the Lincoln Institute and Andrew Reschovsky at the University of Wisconsin.
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