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The North Country Alliance supports economic development legislative priorities such as “weighted” regional cost indices, benchmarks for qualifying businesses to meet that go beyond number of jobs created, and economic impact measurements relative to the region where a business is locating. The North Country Alliance lends its support to the North Country Regional Economic Development Council. The North Country Alliance is concerned about the erosion of local development capacity and the increasing burdens being placed on economic and industrial development organizations in New York State. The North Country Alliance supports retraining dislocated teachers in rural areas to fill understaffed health care positions and tax credits for businesses to off-set the costs of training for high-tech/manufacturing jobs. The North Country Alliance supports several energy proposals that benefit the North Country. The North Country Alliance supports the North Country Regional Council's position on an East-West limited access federal interstate highway. Click here to find out more about these initiatives for 2012. (199kb PDF) The 2011 agenda can be found here. (197kb PDF) |
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