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legislative leaders and fiscal-policy experts will speak at
the annual Issues Conference of The Business Council's Government
Affairs Council (GAC). The conference is set for 9 a.m.-4
p.m. Nov. 20 at the headquarters of the New York State Nurses'
Association in Latham, Albany County
The
Center for Economic Growth and The Business Council of New
York State, Inc. will present "Creative Regional Economies:
An Action Agenda," the second in the Future Forward Speaker
Series on Tuesday, Oct. 22 at 4 p
To
cope with its budget problems next year, New York should return
to the cut-taxes-and-restrain-spending approach that helped
the state prosper after similar challenges in 1995, a new
economic analysis has concluded
A
vocal advocate of higher taxes and more government spending
is urging Albany to increase taxes by as much as $3 billion
- even though its analysis acknowledges that tax increases
can be harmful to an economy.
The
Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI), which is funded primarily by
public-employee unions in Albany and which also receives funding
from left-of-center foundations, made the call in New York
State's 2003-04 Economic and Budget Outlook, a brief report
published on its Web site, www
Consumers
whose employers provide health insurance for them generally
have little idea how much the insurance costs and what the
money goes for, a new poll by Zogby International suggests.
The
poll of some 800 upstate consumers was commissioned by Excellus
Inc
ALBANYThe
Business Council of New York State has released what Council President Daniel
B. Walsh is calling a "love letter" to upstate New York: a new book on the
economic, natural, and cultural assets of upstate.
Upstate New
York: Corridor to Progress, by Stephen W. Bell, was produced "to spread
the good news about upstate and all it has to offer to individuals, businesses,
and institutions," said Business Council President Daniel B
Driven
by increases in costs of hospital care, spending on health
care jumped 10 percent in 2001, the first double-digit increase
in more than a decade, according to a study by the Center
for Studying Health System Change (HSC) published Sept
Governor George Pataki today signed into law a bill designed to prevent employers that receive any state funds from discussing unions or their organizing efforts in any way.
The Business Council opposed the bill, which was conceived and promoted by labor leader Dennis Rivera and other union officials
Driven by
increases in costs of hospital care, spending on health care jumped 10
percent in 2001, the first double-digit increase in more than a decade,
according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC)
published Sept. 25 on the Web site of the journal Health Affairs
ALBANYNew York's business community is "appalled at the substantial,
and in some cases massive, corporate wrongdoing that has been reported over
the last year," and business leaders and the New York Stock Exchange
have already initiated aggressive programs to restore public trust in corporations
and corporate governance, Business Council President Daniel B