ALBANYElementary schools in Albany, Erie, Oswego, Queens, the Bronx,
and Delaware counties will receive The Business Council's 2004 Pathfinder
Award in separate ceremonies in late March and early April. The award
honors schools that show high improvement from one year to the next as
measured by their students' scores on state tests
ALBANY—New
population estimates show New York losing ground to the nation in several
critical age ranges, according to a Public Policy Institute analysis of
new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
The data
add to the evidence suggesting that New York's long-term economic travails
may be impelling an increasing number of New Yorkers to become former
New Yorkers, The Institute's analysis shows
While manufacturing employment has dropped nationwide, New
York was one of only five states to have lost high-paid manufacturing
jobs over the last two decades, according to a report from
the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The report, which analyzed the transition of the nation’s
manufacturing sector from low-skilled to high-skilled labor,
found that New York is one of five states to lose better-paid,
high-skilled manufacturing jobs since 1983
A
bill that would give some small businesses a 50 percent health-insurance
tax credit, first introduced in the Senate in late February,
has now been introduced in the Assembly with 26 sponsors.
The
proposal has also gained in momentum in the Senate as 26 members
of the Republican majority there have joined prime sponsor
Sen
Business
Council staff members and more than a dozen chambers of commerce
and other business associations around the state have been
briefing business leaders on the need for workers' compensation
reform to reduce comp costs-and the importance of taking the
case directly to state lawmakers
More
New York State students are taking and passing state Regents
exams, and more students are receiving a Regents' diploma
each year, according to the 2003 school report cards released
today by the state Board of Regents
Some
New York State lawmakers want voters to blame the state's
poor job growth on outsourcing to foreign countries, but various
shortsighted proposals related to off-shore jobs amount to
Albany's lame attempt to pass the blame for its own policy
failings, the president of an Albany think tank has argued
in the New York Post
An entrepreneurship magazine has included seven New York regions on its
list of top areas in the nation in which to do business.
The same magazine also named two New York cities among the top 10 worst
areas for businesses.
Inc. magazine used job-growth statistics for more than 250 regions
to compile its list of the top 75 large, medium, and small business-friendly
areas in the nation
The
Council has welcomed separate jobs proposals offered by the
Senate and Assembly, but warned that any development plan
must address business's main priority: cutting New York's
consistently above-average job-creation costs
The Nuclear Regulatory Committee, the federal regulatory
committee that oversees nuclear power, has declared the nuclear
reactors at Indian Point nuclear power plant “fit,”
and changed the plant’s level of oversight from “heightened”
to “standard