In fact, START - UP never was scaled to have a major economic impact, as E.J. McMahon of
the Empire Center pointed out two years ago.
The Empire Center pointed out that during the comparable period the state lost nearly 1.6 million residents.
In other words, as EJ McMahon at The
Empire Center pointed out this morning, these tax cuts for middle earners were already approved in last year's budget plan.
As E.J. McMahon at
the Empire Center points out, this is the fifth straight year the administration has blown this deadline.
But as E.J. McMahon of
the Empire Center points out, the fight over the surplus versus deficit isn't an abstraction, considering Cuomo wants to do real things with the extra money:
EJ McMahon of
the Empire Center points to experiences of other states with casinos.
Not exact matches
Our generalizations and our stories will certainly be expressive of particular
points of view and will be influenced by our position of comfort in the
center of
empire.
«The Institute is proud to have nurtured and built the
Empire Center to the
point where it can stand on its own as an organization focused on policy research and education in New York State,» Mone said.
«What that
points to is we're not solving the problem,» said
Empire Center President EJ McMahon.
E.J. McMahon, president of the
Empire Center, predicted a sharp increase in the minimum wage will raise prices and «strain some businesses to the breaking
point.»
The county executive
pointed to a study by E.J. McMahon, founder and research director for the conservative
Empire Center for Public Policy, who has said housing values in the state could decline by up to 20 percent if fewer people are unable to afford more expensive homes and instead put money toward taxes.
Cuomo introduced the 10 -
point plan in his 2013 State of the State address, his «her body, her choice» chant bringing a cheering crowd at the
Empire State Convention
Center to its feet.
CSEA also
pointed out the
Empire Center's hypocrisy in challenging public employee health care coverage at a time when many irresponsible businesses benefit at taxpayer expense under programs like Family Health Plus and Child Health Plus.
«The entire
point of charging a toll for crossing the bridge itself is to recover costs from the people who benefit from it,» said Ken Girardin of the fiscally conservative
Empire Center think tank.
Cuomo's
point man for the free tuition plan, Jim Malatras, spoke at a forum sponsored by the budget watch dog group The
Empire Center.
The
Empire Center's McMahon
pointed out that since 2009, Bronx jobs have grown by 67,000 jobs or nearly 30 per cent, while overall NYC jobs grew 12 % during the same time period.
The rates do not factor in tax exemptions or deductions, as
pointed out by E.J. McMahon from the
Empire Center for Public Policy.
Officials for the authority have not said how it selected four projects in New York City — Lighthouse
Point and
Empire Outlets in Staten Island, Steiner Studios in Brooklyn and the Kingsbridge National Ice
Center in the Bronx — that are the initial candidates for funding.
Officials at the authority have not explicitly explained how they selected the subsidized projects — Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, the Kingsbridge National Ice
Center in the Bronx as well as
Empire Outlets and Lighthouse
Point on Staten Island — except to say that state - created Regional Economic Development Councils and local legislators, in theory, have some influence.
More to the
point, says the
Empire Center, «School spending in New York [state] was driven primarily by instructional salaries and benefits — which, at $ 14,769 per pupil, were 114 percent above the national average of $ 6,903, the census data show.»
Allgood, Blountsville, Bremen, Brookside, Cardiff,
Center Point, Clay, Cleveland, County Line, Cullman, Dixiana, Dodge City, Dora,
Empire, Fultondale, Garden City, Gardendale, Good Hope, Graysville, Hanceville, Highland Lake, Kimberly, Locust Fork, Morris, Mount Olive, Nectar, New Castle, Oneonta, Palmerdale, Pinson, Remlap, Rosa, Sayre, Sipsey, Springville, Sumiton, Trafford, Warrior, Watson, Whites Chapel view all states»
«All of this
points back to the unsustainability of the state's pension system,» said Tim Hoefer, executive director of the
Empire Center for Public Policy, an Albany - based think tank.
Whether the Romans used such an expression is not clear, but Emperor Caesar Augustus did erect a monument in the
center of Rome known as the Miliarium Aureum (golden milestone) and many believe that all distances in the Roman
empire were measured from that
point.
The city of Cusco is the
center of operations and the starting
point of almost all circuits that are visited throughout the region for having been in the time of the Incas the capital city and main administrative
center of this vast and awesome
empire Within the cultural attractions, we can find the beautiful and fascinating Cathedral, one of the largest, most beautiful and important of all Latin America, built entirely with stones brought from the impressive Sacsayhuaman, which is still an enigmatic Inca construction that surprises, by the size of its stones and the amazing precision with which each of these stones fits.
During the Inca times, it was the
center of their culture and the whole Tahuantinsuyo, it was the main
point for administration of the
empire and were all the roads from the four different lands or «suyos» were crossing their
points.