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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
