New
York State businesses are invited to make a contribution to
a worthy cause and, in the process, accept an outstanding
promotional opportunity for the business.
Companies
can receive substantial, positive television exposure before
an educated and attentive audience by giving cash and/or their
products or services to public television stations conducting
their annual fund-raising "auctions
The
pharmaceutical industry has added thousands of jobs and brought
billions of dollars' worth of new wealth into New York State
in recent years, a Census Bureau report shows.
Drug
companies employed more than 25,700 in New York in 2000, an
increase of more than 7,000 jobs from three years earlier,
according to the Census Bureau's 2000 Annual Survey of
Manufactures
The
state Education Department (SED) is conducting a "job analysis
study" to study how well scores on New York State Regents
exams predict test-takers' later performance in college and
the workplace.
The
purpose of the questionnaire is to understand what knowledge,
skills, and abilities are relevant to the performance of students
after high school
The
Assembly Republican Conference has added to the growing momentum
for tort reform with a sweeping proposal that seeks to lower
government costs and save taxpayers and consumers billions
of dollars now lost to lawsuit abuse
Capital
investment by New York State manufacturers rose sharply in
2000, growing at more than four times the pace of investment
nationally, a new Census Bureau report shows.
Manufacturers
made $5.4 billion in capital expenditures in the Empire State
in 2000, a 12
Serving
many high-risk children in mostly high-need areas, New York
State's public charter schools are largely achieving the goals
set for them in the 1998 state law that created the schools,
according to a new report from the Charter Schools Institute
of the State University of New York (SUNY)
Manufacturing
"plays an especially vital role" in the upstate
New York economy and must be a key target of efforts to bring
new businesses and jobs to upstate communities, Business Council
President/CEO Daniel B. Walsh told lawmakers
Testimony of
Daniel B. Walsh
The Business Council of New York State, Inc.
March 6, 2002
Chairman Farrell, Chairman Schimminger, Chairman Morelle, and honorable members of the committees:
Thank you for inviting us to offer comments today. Like you, we want to see a stronger Upstate economy
Governor
George Pataki has proposed legislation that would allocate
183 megawatts of power to extend the successful Power for
Jobs program, which provides reduced-rate power to employers
that promise to create or retain jobs
ALBANY, N.Y.New
York's final State Energy Plan should include
a more aggressive estimate of future demand than the current draft does, and
should emphasize New York's need to site more generating plants to meet future
energy needs, Johnny Evers, The Business Council's legislative analyst specializing
in energy, testified today