Sentences with phrase «economic development spending more»

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Even more fraught is the debate over procurement reform in the state Legislature, where lawmakers had sought to restore power to the comptroller's office when it comes to oversight of economic development spending.

Government reform groups hope the bill would provide more transparency of opaque entities that have been used as pass - throughs for major economic development spending.

Cuomo has insisted that proposal is aimed at the Legislature trying to assert more power over economic development spending, which he opposes.

More scrutiny for economic development spending has been pushed without much success over the last several years despite the arrests of prominent developers and a former aide to the governor.

Senate Republicans have indicated they are taking a more aggressive push on economic development oversight and spending in the state.

While the councils have seemingly given the executive branch of government more authority and discretion over economic development spending, Flanagan insisted the appetite for oversight isn't a switch in his approach.

While good - government groups and lawmakers push for more oversight and transparency of economic development spending in New York, legislative leaders in Albany still hope to strike a deal with Governor Andrew Cuomo on the issue.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday at the state Business Council's annual retreat in Bolton Landing gave what has become a sort of greatest - hits speech for his administration: A property tax cap, a self - imposed limit on annual spending increases, economic development spending and a tourism push that has paid out dividends of more people heading upstate.

Included in that spending bill was more than $ 16 billion for economic development, roads, parks and other work.

I've been reporting on economic development in this town for more than a decade and the way Andrew Cuomo and Co. plan on spending the first installment of the $ 1 billion they've pledged to revitalize the Buffalo area economy is like nothing I've ever seen.

The state budget did include more spending on economic development in the budget, including more money for Regional Economic Development Councils and another $ 500 million for projects in economic development in the budget, including more money for Regional Economic Development Councils and another $ 500 million for projects development in the budget, including more money for Regional Economic Development Councils and another $ 500 million for projects in Economic Development Councils and another $ 500 million for projects Development Councils and another $ 500 million for projects in Buffalo.

After state Assembly lawmakers on Wednesday grilled his top economic development chief for more than two hours, Cuomo in Buffalo lashed out at lawmakers who are questioning the millions of dollars in spending.

The facts, as confirmed by ongoing independent quantitative research, show our efforts have made great strides in improving perceptions of New York State, creating greater awareness of our economic development programs, increasing the perception that New York is a good or excellent place to do business by 122 percent among executives from out of state, as well as attracting more tourists to spend their vacations here.

State lawmakers want to see more oversight of economic development spending after the arrests of nine people last week in an alleged widespread scheme involving bid rigging and bribery within key projects designed to spur job creation upstate.

He also restated a plan to provide free tuition to students whose families earn less than $ 125,000 and wants to spend another $ 750 million on economic development through regional councils, which Senate Republicans have pledged to oversee more closely in the coming months.

In the Senate, it means more comprehensive public reporting about how economic development funding for programs like the Buffalo Billion is spent.

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But more than that, a lot of the spending has little or nothing to do with economic development.

DeFrancisco and his Republican Senate colleagues will likely push for more oversight of this and other economic development spending during upcoming budget negotiations.

Timothy J. Bartik, a senior economist at the institute and the report's author, said New York state likely spent more on economic development.

The article also cited research from the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan government watchdog group, that likewise found more than $ 8 billion spent each year on economic development incentives in New York state.

Others, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, suggest spending more surplus dollars on economic development, so extra tax dollars would allow local governments to better fund infrastructure projects on their own.

«This is a very short trip, I'm literally there for just about a day, and we're going to do economic development meetings, and I won't have an opportunity to do anything much more than that,» he said, saying he would spend the trip conferring with Israeli government ministers.

Last week, the state Legislature approved Gov. Andrew Cuomo's request to spend about $ 6.5 billion on a grab bag of economic development projects and business tax breaks — ... (read more)

New York is spending more than ever in the name of economic development — $ 8.6 billion last fiscal year alone, according to an estimate by the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan group that tracks state spending.

Since March, MLS has spent $ 1,155,777 targeting NYC Council Members, the Mayor, the Borough President, the Public Advocate, Parks and Recreation, The Economic Development Corporation and many more.

Nixon added that «it was good that jobs were created» in the broader Buffalo Billion program, but she questioned the way in which economic development dollars are dedicated by the Cuomo administration and said more state money needs to be spent on crumbling infrastructure needs.

The watchdog identified nearly $ 13 billion in the budget in nonspecific funding: around $ 3 billion «subject to decisions of one or more particular elected officials,» and nearly $ 10 billion «in approximately 40 different economic development and infrastructure pots listing no official with spending authority.»

Critics of the state's approach to economic development, including the Buffalo Billion, have repeatedly said that the state Comptroller should have more oversight of contracts and spending - something Comptroller Tom DiNapoli recently addressed in a series of proposals.

The governor has spent the past week rolling out pieces of his agenda, including events and announcements over the weekend, largely focused on infrastructure, but also criminal justice reform, the minimum wage, economic development, and more.

Economic modeling shows that in some low - and middle - income countries, such as India and Tanzania, «the gross domestic product lost to stunting can be more than a country's spending on health,» explains Richter, who helped produce a series of papers on early childhood development published online in The Lancet last October.

The study aims, in part, to address the fact that the U.S. spends about 40 percent more on health care per capita than the next highest - spending country in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a group of 35 major nations — a figure that leads many to wonder whether there are significant inefficiencies in U.S. health care spending.

Currently many politicians are «talking green,» but they are spending more on new prisons than on widespread green economic development.

A year later, the United Kingdom launched the Newton Fund, which will spend # 735 million over 7 years for research partnerships supporting economic development in China, Brazil, India, and more than a dozen other countries.

The report also notes that the United States spends more on average to compensate teachers and non-teachers when compared with other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries.

Since 2008, the global economic crisis has made it even more necessary to ensure that development and aid spending is used wisely, where it can make the biggest difference.

Governments can spend more per person on public services, families can spend more on each child, and more money is available to invest in economic development.

Governmental fiscal drag has turned into fiscal stimulus, lower energy costs support consumer spending and business investment, further easing of credit conditions for business and real estate lending support commerce and development, and more upbeat consumer and business confidence, all of which portend faster economic growth in 2015.