Showing posts with label NY economic recovery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NY economic recovery. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Express Train to NY Economic Recovery?

New York, NY (New York News Connection) - The light at the end of New York’s dark economic tunnel might be a train – carrying recovery in the form of mass transit manufacturing in New York factories, according to one group of experts.

The report, assembled by union strategists and economic-policy analysts, calls for replacing some of a decade’s worth of lost manufacturing jobs by investing in building and repairing rail and subway cars and buses. That way, says report co-author Brian Lombardozzi, the people who ride mass transit can be the people making it.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

Comptroller: NY economic recovery slow and uneven

New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says the state's economic recovery has been slow and uneven.

DiNapoli in a new report says that while private-sector employment is up, public-sector employment is down. And while home values in upstate New York's largest metropolitan areas spiked in the fourth quarter of 2010, values have begun to decline in the New York City region.