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Calls for Equal Funding in High-Need Schools

Sean Collins February 3, 2012 0

Long Island Press 2/3/2012 Rashed Mian http://www.longislandpress.com/2012/02/03/calls-for-equal-funding-in-high-need-schools/ Amparo Sadler, a grandmother from Central Islip, stood across the street from the Martin Luther King Jr., elementary school in Wyandanch on Wednesday and called on New

Calling On State to Restore School Funding

Sean Collins February 1, 2012 0

Unhappy with Governor Andrew Cuomo's proposed state budget, activists are raising their voices to bring money back to public education

Tax Expert Calls For Closing NYS Tax Loopholes

Sean Collins January 31, 2012 0

A recently released report from Citizens for Tax Justice and the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy entitled, ‘Tax Dodging In the 50 States,’ found that many highly profitable companies are paying very little

Assembly Democrats, businesses differ on impact of minimum-wage hike

Sean Collins January 30, 2012 0

In announcing legislation today to increase New York’s minimum wage, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, said President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the federal minimum-wage law in 1938 to “give flight to the American dream

City of Binghamton hopes mandate relief will ease fiscal burden

Sean Collins January 18, 2012 0

A difficult trend has plagued the City of Binghamton over the past few years: Rising costs to health care and pensions combined with little or no increase to revenue and aid

Tier educators applaud school aid plan

Sean Collins January 17, 2012 0

Southern Tier school officials welcomed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to boost state school aid in his proposed state budget.

Coalition Targets “First Billion” in NY Corporate Tax Loopholes

Sean Collins January 10, 2012 0

The broad-based progressive coalition that rallied to keep New York's "millionaire's tax" in 2011 has a new target, saying it's going after corporate tax loopholes in 2012. Ron Deutsch, executive director of New Yorkers

Groups Put Pressure on Cuomo’s Tax Plan

Sean Collins December 5, 2011 0

Progressive groups are trying to pressure Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislators into negotiating a tax code change that would make the wealthy pay much more than they do now and patch budget cuts. They