The
state Senate has approved a bill to extend the state's current
law governing the siting of power plants until July of 2007.
Article
X of the state's Public Service Law is due to expire Dec.
31. The Business Council has strongly advocated improvements
to Article X that will accelerate the plant siting process
and make it easier for the state to add the new generating
capacity it needs
A new poll of New York voters shows that New Yorkers by a significant margin prefer cuts in government to higher
taxes, as Albany deals with the state's current fiscal challenges.
More than half of New Yorkers polled (52 percent) said the state should cut services to balance the budget, a poll
by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute poll showed
A
new study offers new evidence that New York's competitiveness
would improve if it cut its overall tax burden, government
debt, and other costs of job creation, including workers'
compensation and electricity costs
New
York State's Medicaid spending has grown almost twice as fast
as aid to schools since fiscal 1988 and even faster compared
to spending on higher education, a Dec. 13 fiscal analysis
by The Public Policy Institute of New York State shows
Although
total government spending in New York is too high, New York
ranks dead last among all states in investing in higher education,
one area of spending that is critical to the state's economic
future, a new fiscal analysis from The Public Policy Institute
of New York State shows
New
York's public debt is the nation's second highest on a per
capita basis, 88 percent above the national average - which
means that more government borrowing to address New York's
coming fiscal challenge would be unwise, a new fiscal analysis
from The Public Policy Institute of New York State shows
Local
taxes that are 63 percent above the national average are New
York's top competitive disadvantage, and history suggests
that more state aid to localities won't fix the problem, a
new fiscal analysis by The Public Policy Institute of New
York State shows
Nearly
half of all states are responding to budget challenges in
the current fiscal year by reducing state spending in net
enacted budgets, a new analysis shows.
The
National Governors Association (NGA) and the National Association
of State Budget Officers (NASBO) released their biannual report,
The Fiscal Survey of States, on Nov
The
National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that oversees
the nation's labor relations law, has expressed "serious concerns"
about the legality of state's new "labor neutrality law" -
the same concerns The Business Council voiced last summer
in vigorously opposing the union-backed bill
How
the state created the current state budget offers a strong
case for spending restraint in dealing with the state's current
fiscal challenge - because only spending restraint in previous
years made this year's $5 billion spending increase possible,
the latest state budget analysis by The Public Policy Institute
of New York State shows