Responding to a request from The Business Council, the state
Department of Taxation and Finance says it will work to ease
the effect on businesses of the short notice many merchants
received of a change in the state sales tax that took effect
last month
New
Yorkers tend to rate their health-maintenance organizations
(HMOs) somewhat more highly than consumers nationwide, according
to a new report designed to help employers and employees to
evaluate New York HMOs on a variety of criteria
The
Business Council is urging Governor George Pataki to veto
a bill that would impose new record-keeping requirements on
employers whose workers handle or use toxic substances.
The
bill (S.2452-Onorato, A.8014-Nolan) is needlessly burdensome
to employers and is pre-empted by federal standards enforced
by the U
New
York City paid $525 million in settlements and judgments from
claims for personal injury, property damage, and contract
disputes in fiscal year 2002, down by $55.5 million from the
previous year, a new report from the city comptroller said
The state Court of Appeals ruling that New York State must
spend more on New York City schools to make sure that schoolchildren
there receive an adequate education will create "enormous
political problems" next year and will give unusual powers
to a single judge, the head of The Public Policy Institute,
the research affiliate of The Business Council, said today
In
a ruling likely to have major budget and political implications
for New York State, the state's highest court has held that
New York City is not adequately teaching its schoolchildren,
and that the city and state must do more to ensure a "sound
basic education" for those students
New
York State has 44 percent more physicians per capita than
the nation as a whole, a new analysis shows.
The
report, "The Facts About New York's Physician Supply," showed
that there were 413 doctors for every 100,000 New Yorkers
in 2001, citing statistics from the American Medical Association
The
state faces "huge" budget gaps in the future because the state's
2003-2004 budget, although balanced, made already big gaps
in out-year budgets even larger, a new report from state Comptroller
Alan Hevesi concluded
The
2003 legislative session ended Friday, June 20, without definitive
action on a host of issues of interest to New York's business
community. The Senate ceased deliberations just before dawn
June 20; the Assembly wrapped up its business that afternoon
Twenty-seven
New York State school districts, including all of the so-called
"Big 5" districts, have been designated as "in need of improvement"
by the state Education Department (SED), according to a new
analysis by an education reform group