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
New York's combined state and local business tax
climate is among the 10 worst in the nation, according to
a recent analysis of state business taxes.
The 2008 State Business Tax Climate, published in October
by the Tax Foundation, reports that New York's tax
climate ranks 48th in the nation – one place below
where the foundation ranked the Empire State on its 2007
index
Upstate's foreign-born workers have contributed to
the area's human capital and helped to boost stagnant
population growth in some areas, a new report by the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York has found.
While foreign immigration to New York City is tracked and
analyzed by many sources, a “substantial number”
of immigrants travel Upstate to settle, the report said
ALBANYNew York State's Medicaid spending increased 3 percent between
2005 and 2006, despite an average decrease in total Medicaid spending
seen nationwide, according to a new analysis by The Business Council's
Public Policy Institute.
The Institute analyzed Medicaid spending data for New York and the other
49 states as the latest installment in its Just The Facts series
of key economic and statistical indicators for New York