We’ve turned things around in New York State! We stopped talking and started doing! In three years (coincidently, the Andrew Cuomo years) we’ve reversed decades of decline and made dramatic and undeniable progress! And the progress is not just in the numbers! We can feel it in every region in our state! We have much […]
Upstate New York economy
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Charter-school supporters aim at John
We won’t vote for state legislators for four months, but one incumbent Democrat is already the focus of attack ads, and charter schools are the issue. Rochester’s Susan John, who faced stiff competition in her last two elections, is one of several Assembly Democrats targeted recently in a roughly $1 million television and direct-mail campaign. […]
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The XX Files 2.22.06
The people are leaving. They’re packing up their cars and pulling their kids out of school, and they’re leaving and leaving and leaving. They’re looking for work. An average of nearly 1.7 million people has left the state in the past nine years, according to the Manhattan Institute. That’s nearly 200,000 — almost as much […]
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Ailing in Upstate: part two
That’s the finding of Losing Ground: Income and Poverty in Upstate New York, 1980-2000, a Brookings Institution report released earlier this fall by Cornell University City and Regional Planning Professors Rolf Pendall and Susan Christopherson. The pair found that taxes and other basic costs are rising here, while wages fail to reach national averages. Poverty […]
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Ailing in Upstate
It’s no secret that Upstate New York has seen better days. Our population is aging, and its growth is all but stagnant. Manufacturing jobs that once drove the nation’s economy have been leaving for a generation now. The Information Age opportunities that were supposed to follow them haven’t materialized, or at least not in the […]
