To
combat skyrocketing health-care costs, New York State should
embrace a bold new approach to containing these costs: a government-wide
effort to reduce costs of both health-care and health insurance
by 10 percent, The Council has urged Governor George Pataki
If
New York had only as many state and local government workers
per capita as the national average and paid them only 3 percent
above the national average, the state's taxpayers would save
almost $14 billion a year, according to the latest state budget
analysis by The Public Policy Institute of New York State
New
York City's apparent determination to raise taxes makes it
even more important that to avoid state tax increases, a top
expert on city and state finances has told The Council.
"In
the years ahead, New York City's problems will case an especially
large shadow over Albany," said E
Leaders
from business, labor, and energy associations joined Business
Council President Daniel B. Walsh at an Albany press conference
at which The Council renewed its call for an improved process
for siting electricity-generating plants in New York State
In
confronting a budget shortfall estimated at $5 billion or
more, New York State lawmakers should ignore pressure for
higher taxes already coming from pro-spending groups, according
to the latest state budget analysis by The Public Policy Institute
of New York State
The
Business Council's Manufacturing Council will conduct a series
of regional events around New York State to identify legislative
issues of greatest importance to industry, and to intensify
the involvement of manufacturing companies and executives
in manufacturing-related advocacy in Albany
To
successfully close a state budget gap estimated at $5 billion
or more, state lawmakers must reject the "perennial myth"
that Albany is inadequately funding public schools, a new
analysis by The Public Policy Institute of New York State
argues
State
lawmakers confronting a 2003-04 budget gap estimated to be
at least $5 billion should focus on Medicaid, the single largest
factor driving state spending, a new analysis by The Public
Policy Institute of New York State argues
ALBANYThe Public Policy Institute of New York State has launched Budget Watch '03, a new series of reports on the fiscal and public-policy challenges state lawmakers will face in creating a state budget for 2003-2004.
The first report in the series, which documents the roots of New York's looming fiscal challenge in state spending patterns, was released today by The Institute, which is the research affiliate of The Business Council
By Daniel B. Walsh,
The Business Council of New York State, Inc.
(Editor's note: This op-ed piece ran in the New York Post November 6, 2002.)
Now that Election Day is past, we'll see more and more headlines about the tough budgetary decisions facing Gov. Pataki, Mayor Bloomberg and our state and city legislators