"The governor says New York has created 380,000 jobs and is now second in the nation in creating jobs since the recession," Kent said in January after Cuomo released his budget. "But, as in his State of the State message, the governor ignored the public employee, the people who really make New York work. With agency budgets flat, the state workforce will remain understaffed with no lessening of responsibilities or workload, putting the services our members provide and our communities at risk."