Sentences with phrase «economic development subsidies»

Why should the public have any confidence that other economic development subsidy agreements are worth the paper they are written on?

Committee backers have received over $ 1 billion in economic development subsidies from an out - of - control and unaccountable system which the Cuomo administration has declined to reform.

Good Jobs First,» Jail Breaks: Economic Development Subsidies Given to Private Prisons», October 2001, p. 2.

Combined with various state tax credits, Destiny has received nearly $ 704 million in government subsidies, making it one of the biggest recipients of economic development subsidies in the country, according to a report released Thursday by Good Jobs First.

US Attorney Preet Bharara's probe of the Buffalo Billion has spurred good government reformers to call for an overhaul of how the state hands out economic development subsidies.

That leads some observers, including Kaehny, to believe that Bharara is interested in the state's economic development subsidy programs as a whole.

Heaney continued to put a price tag on costly economic development subsidies, including a Yahoo data center in Lockport and Alcoa's aluminum plant in Massena.

Why should the public have any confidence that other New York State economic development subsidy agreements are worth the paper they are written on?

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a Republican from suburban Schenectady, wants to require infrastructure projects and economic development subsidies drawn from discretionary funds to be lined out in the state budget that lawmakers are hoping to adopt before the new fiscal year starts next month.

«We are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in economic development subsidies, tax payer monies that are being used to subsidize private corporations that were supposed to create jobs,» he said.

The December fundraiser also came one week after Cuomo announced that Central New York was one of three upstate regions to win $ 500 million in economic development subsidies.

He'll also, again, have to confront an inevitable chorus of advocates (including some elected lawmakers) to reform the systems of lobbying, campaign finance and economic development subsidies that made the alleged schemes possible.

Job growth across upstate New York remains sluggish despite billions in economic development subsidies