Based on federal figures, the state has the lowest wage gap. (auburnpub.com)
The latest federal figures showed that 280,477 county residents were on Medicaid or some other federally backed health plan — which amounts to 30 percent of the county population. (buffalonews.com)
The new federal figure is about a quarter of the baseline that state Department of Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said the state would use on Wednesday evening. (politico.com)