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
The Business Council has reprinted Governor Pataki's April 15 testimony
before Congress in a brochure for economic development and site-selection
professionals.
Governor Pataki told the House Committee on Government Reform about
New York's economic decline in recent decades, how high taxes drove that
decline, and the state's recent efforts to reverse the decline
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
The Assembly has scheduled public hearings in May in Buffalo, Rochester,
Syracuse and Albany to examine proposals to improve the upstate economy.
The Council plans to testify.
Citing tax cuts, reduced workers' compensation rates, and reduced-rate
power available for job creation and retention under the Power for Jobs
program, the Assembly's hearing announcement said the state's economy
has improved
The number of new state regulations has been cut in half since Governor
Pataki created the Governor's Office of Regulatory Reform, a new report
from GORR says.
"We'll keep slashing away at the tangle of red tape so often involved
in government bureaucracy," David S. Bradley, GORR's acting director,
said
A new Assembly bill that would require health-care insurers to provide
coverage of infertility treatments has re-energized debate about health-care
mandates and their effects on health-care costs.
The bill, sponsored by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, would mandate
that any health insurance that covers hospital stays, surgical care,
and medical care must also cover costs of diagnosis and treatments for
infertility, including drug therapy, artificial insemination and in-vitro
fertilization