A fiscal watchdog group is questioning the state’s century-old prevailing wage law for construction workers, saying it unnecessarily costs taxpayers billions of dollars a year in added expenses for big road, bridge and other projects. Read More
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The state’s financial floor has collapsed twice in the past 15 years because of economic meltdowns, and the current economic growth, he said, is getting old and weak. “Put aside all the hysteria,’’ McMahon said of federal budget impacts on Albany, “and what they should be concerned about is the risk to their revenue forecast.’’ Read More
Here we go again: Another group is giving New York the lowest possible grade for its economic prospects. Read More
The latest report released this month on the governor’s tax-free incentive job program, Start-Up New York, says roughly 1,100 net new jobs were created since the start of the program in 2013. Read More
Not everyone, it turns out, was as pleased with the results as Cuomo and other Albany insiders. Read More
E. J. McMahon of the Empire Center for Public Policy told The Times it seemed to him that Mr. Cuomo had “hastily reverse-engineered” the process to get the headline he wanted, which sounds about right. Read More
More people are leaving the New York region than any other major metropolitan area in the country. Read More
The controversial Start-Up NY economic development program that granted lucrative tax breaks to businesses has created 288 new jobs in Western New York in its first three years, a new state report said. Read More