Empire State Development spends nearly $2 billion annually in taxpayer money for loans, grants, tax credits and other incentives to companies and projects, but fails to properly evaluate most of its programs to determine if they actually are boosting the ...

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In 2018, New York’s Finger Lakes industrial development agencies approved $60.4 million in tax exemptions to projects valued at $8.1 billion, a new report from state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli shows. The 2020 annual “Performance of Industrial Development Agencies in New ...

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Small business employment rose by 9.2 percent in New York State between 2011 and 2016, slightly outpacing the national increase of 8.9 percent, a new report from state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli shows. Using U.S. Census Bureau data, the report shows ...

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Monroe County continues to rank among the most fiscally stressed communities statewide, a new report from the state comptroller’s office shows, but the county’s scorecard has improved significantly over the last two years. Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s Fiscal Stress Monitoring System ...

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The Finger Lakes region is rebounding from both the Great Recession and downsizing at Rochester’s Big Three employers thanks in part to growth in the technology, health care, agriculture and tourism industries, a new report shows. State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli ...

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