IBM's innovative “Transition to Teaching” program
has earned the New York-based corporation the 2006 recipient
of the New York State School Boards Association President’s
Award.
“When a prominent company such as IBM focuses its resources
and creativity on our schools, it draws attention to the greater
good of educating children,” NYSSBA President Carl Onken
A new analysis of taxes in the 50 states'
concludes that New York has one of the nation's worst "business
tax climates."
The 2007 State Business Tax Climate Index, published this
week by the Tax Foundation, ranks New York 47th among the states
in the competitiveness of its business-tax climate
ALBANYNew York's Medicaid spending is more than twice the per-capita national average, both for total spending and for most major program categories, a new Public Policy Institute analysis shows.
As of 2005, New York State led the nation with total Medicaid costs of $43.4 billion -- some $9.5 billion more than second-place California
ALBANYNew York’s state and local government employees pay a smaller share of pension costs, but collect higher benefits than public employees in other states, according to a Public Policy Institute
analysis of new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
State and local government retirees in New York collected an average
$23,891 in pension benefits in 2005, some 16 percent above the national
average, according to the Institute
ALBANYNew York’s state and local government employees pay a smaller share of pension costs, but collect higher benefits than public employees in other states, according to a Public Policy Institute
analysis of new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
State and local government retirees in New York collected an average
$23,891 in pension benefits in 2005, some 16 percent above the national
average, according to the Institute
When measured as a percentage of home value, property taxes in
nine New York counties were among the nation's top 10 property tax
burdens in 2005, according to a new study by the Tax Foundation.
Property taxes in the Upstate counties of Niagara, Monroe, Onondaga,
Wayne, Chautauqua, Erie, Schenectady, Cayuga, and Chemung Counties
were 2
ALBANYNew York’s state and local government employees pay a smaller share of pension costs, but collect higher benefits, than public employees in other states, according to a Public Policy Institute
analysis of new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
State and local government retirees in New York collected an average
$23,891 in pension benefits in 2005, some 16 percent above the national
average, according to the Institute
New York State employers will pay less in both federal and state
unemployment insurance taxes in 2007—a change The Business
Council projected back in 2004, according to Rich Schwarz, the Council's
tax counsel.
The federal unemployment compensation tax (known as the FUTA tax)
will decrease from $98/employee to $56/employee, Schwarz said
Consumer-driven health care is the answer to growing costs both
in public and private-sector health care, a series of experts agreed
at a recent forum on the topic.
The September 26 forum, hosted by the Manhattan Institute’s
Empire Center for New York State policy, featured experts from across
the country in the public and private sectors who spoke about what
can be done to curb rising health-care costs in Medicaid and private
health insurance
New York should refocus its economic development power programs
on retaining existing energy-intensive businesses and site additional
energy generation to curb rising energy prices, Ken Pokalsky, the
Council's director of environmental and regulatory programs, told
the state’s Power Commission