If
it adopts extensive new technical requirements affecting how
wind power is moved onto the state's electricity transmission
grid, New York State could safely add about 3,300 megawatts
of new wind-powered electric generating capacity, a preliminary
report on the potential of wind generation in New York said
The
Governor's Medicaid task force has urged reforms it says would
cut spending on Medicaid in New York by $4.2 billion over
the next five years.
The
task force singled out long-term care as a key cost driver
and said the state should release counties from paying for
expensive long-term treatment
To build support for its comprehensive workers’ compensation
reform package, The Business Council is offering to brief
its members as well as local and regional associations of
businesses and manufacturers on the proposal.
This must be the year that comprehensive workers’ compensation
reform is passed, said Kerry Kirwan, The Business Council’s
legislative analyst specializing in workers’ compensation
Business that want to foster relations with overseas contemporaries
may do so through an internship program, sponsored by the
U.S. Department of Commerce, that allows U.S. companies to
host industry professionals from Eurasia.
The Special American Business Internship Training (SABIT)
awards competitive grants to private-sector U
Two
powerful health-care spending groups have proposed a new tax
on businesses of up to $3,000 per employee and $1 to $2 billion
in new taxpayer-funded public debt to send new taxpayer dollars
to hospitals and increase state spending on Medicaid and other
government health insurance programs
Governor
George Pataki said in his State of the State message Jan.
7 that New York can and should add a million new private-sector
jobs by the end of the decade.
He
also proposed a range of reforms that could put that goal
within reach, including a new business-tax reform, education
reforms to enhance accountability, immediate cuts to state
and local Medicaid costs, energy initiatives, and workers'
compensation reform
The state Assembly Republican conference has proposed creating
jobs and boosting the economy with a sweeping program that
includes an expanded Empire Zone program, new incentives for
manufacturers, a state takeover of all Medicaid costs, and
a ban on new unfunded state mandates
The state Assembly Republican conference has proposed creating jobs and
boosting the economy with a sweeping program that includes an expanded
Empire Zone program, new incentives for manufacturers, a state takeover
of all Medicaid costs, and a ban on new unfunded state mandates
Sections 240/241 of the state’s Labor Law expose New
York’s property owners and contractors to unfair liability,
make business insurance prohibitively expensive if it’s
available at all, and drive up everyday costs for taxpayers
and all New Yorkers, The Council has told the state Insurance
Department
A
new tax on stock trades "could be counterproductive and drive
markets and trades out of New York," Governor Pataki said
last week.
"The
essential thing is that we be the financial capital of the
world," the Governor said