Albany, New York
May 11, 1999
Testimony of:
Daniel B. Walsh, President
The Business Council of New York State, Inc.
Assemblyman Morelle, Assemblyman Schimminger, and honorable members of the committees:
Thank you for the opportunity to testify on the upstate economy. The Business Council is the largest broad-based association representing business in New York State
New worker training programs and brownfield redevelopment incentives
would help bolster the upstate economy, Business Council President Daniel
B. Walsh told an Assembly hearing in Albany Tuesday.
Walsh testified at one of four hearings on the upstate economy being
held this month in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany, chaired by
Assembly members Robin Schimminger and Joseph Morelle
The upstate economy has turned the corner and will continue to add tens
of thousands of new private-sector jobs as a result of recent state tax
cuts, a new study by Governor Pataki's chief economist has concluded.
Poor upstate job growth for 25 years is the direct result of heavy state
and local taxes, the study said
ALBANY—Raymond T. Schuler, founding president of The Business
Council, was honored today as one of the most important 20th-century
business leaders in New York State at ceremonies during which The Council's
landmark Albany headquarters building was renamed in his honor.
A plaque renaming 152 Washington Avenue "The Schuler Building" was unveiled
at a late-morning ceremony attended by past and present leaders of state
government and New York's business community
Manufacturing keeps New Yorkers working An agenda for 1999
Manufacturing Week (May 7-14) provides an opportunity to reflect on how much New York has improved its business climate in the last five years, and how much farther we have to go.
From 1989 to 1994, New York lost an average of 42,000 manufacturing jobs a year
ALBANYMore than 400 school districts in New York State raised
per-student taxes by more than the inflation rate in 1997, a new "Tax
Watch" study by The Public Policy Institute finds.
Fully 405 districts increased per-student taxes by more than 2.3 percent
from 1996 to 1997, while 119 districts reduced them, according to the
Institute's analysis of data made available recently by the Office
of the State Comptroller
Bulletin #5: May 5, 1999
Health-care cuts? What health-care cuts?
Just how far out of line is New York's Medicaid program? With less than 7 percent of U.S. population, our Medicaid spending was 17.3 percent of the national total in 1997. Per-capita spending on the program totaled $1,177 - not only the highest level in the country, but more than 50 percent above the second-highest state
Bulletin #4: May 3, 1999
Education cuts? What education cuts?
One of the pro-spending lobbyists' biggest complaints about Governor Pataki's proposed budget is that it "slashes" education spending. The fact is, of course, that our education spending is already among the very highest in the country, and would jump still further under the Executive Budget
Bulletin #4: May 3, 1999
Education cuts? What education cuts?
One of the pro-spending lobbyists' biggest complaints about Governor Pataki's proposed budget is that it "slashes" education spending. The fact is, of course, that our education spending is already among the very highest in the country, and would jump still further under the Executive Budget
Bulletin #3: April 29, 1999
Health care being 'slashed'? We've heard it all before
The health-care lobbyists and unions are working overtime to convince New Yorkers and their elected officials that our health-care system will be at death's door, if state financing is reduced. The head of the Greater New York Hospital Association said recently that, as a result of funding reforms proposed by both Governor Pataki and President Clinton, "You're going to see massive service cutbacks" in hospitals