Weak long-term job growth in New York State is a function of high taxes and high government spending, so Albany's priorities in shaping next year's budget should be limiting spending growth and addressing the tax burden, Business Council president Kenneth Adams has told top state fiscal officials in Albany
Job growth in Upstate New York has increased modestly over
the past few years but remained below the average employment
growth of downstate and the nation, according to a new report
by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The report, the latest in a series of reports on Upstate
New York by the bank, also attributed the region's
record-low unemployment levels to its declining population
and labor force numbers
ALBANY—New York's past economic performance
and future economic outlook are among the bleakest in the
nation, according to a new report by the American Legislative
Exchange Council (ALEC), a bipartisan association of state
lawmakers based in Washington D
ALBANYA prominent national index ranks New York's overall cost
of doing business among the highest in the country—but the state's
unemployment insurance costs are now below average.
Those are among the trends documented by updated new tables in the Public
Policy Institute's Just the Facts series
A new kind of research partnership between research universities
and major corporations can help the nation strengthen its
flagging leadership in research and development, the president
of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has argued in
a new paper
Eighteen of the top 100 high schools in the nation are in New York State, according to a new ranking from U.S. News & World Report.
The list includes six New York City high schools, six from Westchester County, four from Long Island, and one each from the Buffalo and Rochester regions:
Stuyvesant High School, New York City (ranked 15)
ALBANY—Pamela Finch, executive director of the Employer Alliance for Affordable Health Care, has been named
Small Business Advocate for The Business Council.
In this new role, Finch will lead The Business Council's efforts to advocate for small-business owners in New York
State
ALBANY—Heather Briccetti, a consultant and lobbyist in government affairs with experience in the state Legislature
and the state Attorney General's office, has been named vice president of government affairs for The Business Council.
In that role, she will lead The Business Council's lobbying and legislative affairs efforts in Albany
ALBANYHealth-care insurance premiums in New York are about $500
a year more than the average state, but employers are protecting workers
from much of the gap by picking up a larger than average share of the
cost, a new analysis by the Public Policy Institute shows.
The analysis is part of the Public Policy Institute's Just the Facts,
an on-line compendium of key economic and social indicators
Corning Incorporated broke ground Tuesday on a $300 million
project to expand and upgrade its Sullivan Park Research
and Development campus in Erwin, Steuben County, a project
that officials said will bring 300 new high-paying research
jobs to the company