New York state budget officials predict the national recession will end sometime in the third quarter of 2009. State Budget Director Laura Anglin is releasing the state's updated financial plan Tuesday, which projects an upturn in the economy later this year. She attributes ...

Gov. David Paterson on Tuesday ordered layoffs that could total about 4 percent of state workers after unions refused concessions amid a staggering economic downturn that was projected to push the state's deficit to $16 billion in the next year. Budget Director Laura Anglin told ...