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  • $7.1b

    New York State's annual debt service in four years, or one out of every ten dollars paid in taxes.

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It's Time to End Empire Zones

Dec 02, 2008

The Economic Development Zone program has become a vehicle for giving tax breaks to a variety of corporations with no clear, consistent, verifiable justification for the public investment.

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Op-Ed

N.Y. Needs to Create Jobs

Jun 03, 2010

Deputy Research Director Elizabeth Lynam penned an op-ed in the Albany Times Union that advocates for the overhaul of the State's economic development programs in order to capture true job creation with scarce resources.

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Letter to the State Legislature Urging Them to Let the Empire Zones Program Sunset

Apr 12, 2010

This letter was written to urge the State legislature to allow the seriously flawed Empire Zones program to sunset as of June 30, 2010, as established by law, and to enact the Excelsior program as proposed by the Governor.

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Work In Progress

The Innovation Economy in New York State Presentation

Nov 25, 2009

This presentation defines what an innovation economy is, describes New York's innovation economy's position amongst comparable states in a variety of measurements, and details state spending on research and development.

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Testimony

Testimony Delivered to the Economic Development Committee of the New York City Council

Nov 24, 2009

Testimony before the City Council's Economic Development Committee on why the state's economic development program Empire Zones should be eliminated.

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Testimony

Testimony Before a Joint Session on NYPA

Sep 23, 2009

A testimony before a number of State Senate and Assembly committees where Deputy Director of Research Elizabeth Lynam reviewed the findings of a recent CBC report on the efficacy of NYPA's economic development programs.

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Press Citation

Group Advises Overhaul at NYPA

Sep 23, 2009

Watertown Daily Times

Lori Shull

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