Sentences with phrase «struggling upstate areas»
Even if the Flanagan deal helps Republicans hold the Skelos seat, his support for the higher wage could cost the GOP Senate seats in financially struggling upstate areas, where opposition is strong.
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that for the three host communities, the casinos offer the possibility of greater tourism and a chance to revitalize long - struggling upstate areas.
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A Times Union analysis also found that some of the most economically struggling areas of the state are getting little from START - UP — a program originally intended to benefit upstate.
NAACP - NY President Hazel Dukes claimed the Gaming Commission engaged in discrimination by entertaining bids to open a fourth casino in the hard - pressed, mostly white upstate Southern Tier region but not in the struggling Newburgh area populated by mostly Blacks and Hispanics.
President Donald Trump in a Wall Street Journal interview this week seemingly suggested residents in struggling upstate communities abandon their homes and move to more prosperous areas in order to get jobs — drawing concern from Republican Rep. Claudia Tenney.
A Times Union analysis found that some of the most economically struggling areas of the state are getting little from START - UP — a program originally intended to benefit upstate.