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NEWS - DECEMBER 2002

  • Study: Pharmaceutical industry helps New York's economy, health care; policies should encourage its growth, not punish its success (December 23, 2002)

  • Study: High taxes, debt, and job-creation costs lessen New York's competitiveness; technology strengthens it (December 23, 2002)

  • Insurer's Web site offers information on update hospitals' performance records (December 23, 2002)

  • Institute analysis: New York's 'tax gap' still big, but shrinking; separate study shows state's 'tax effort' still nation's highest (December 19, 2002)

  • Poll: New Yorkers prefer cutting government to raising taxes (December 18, 2002)

  • Senate votes to extend current power-plant siting law (December 18, 2002)

  • Report: Health-care spending has increased much faster than aid to schools, higher education (December 13, 2002)

  • Report: New York's higher-education system is a bargain for taxpayers (December 10, 2002)

  • Report: State debt is too high to permit more borrowing to address budget gap (December 6, 2002)

  • Report: Local taxes in New York are state's top competitive disadvantage, and more state aid won't help (December 3, 2002)

  • Echoing Council, NLRB voices "serious concerns" about law that helps unions organize (December 2, 2002)

  • Council: To ease health costs, New York should pursue '10 percent solution' (December 2, 2002)

  • Survey: Nearly half of states are reducing spending in response to budget challenges (December 2, 2002)

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