Counties Release “Economy Watch”
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- January
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The state Association of Counties has updated its Web site with an economic report called Economy Watch, which includes a range of economic indicators for local governments.
“The state of our current economy is floundering and foreboding,” said NYSAC Executive Director Stephen J. Acquario. “End of year layoff announcements indicate New York will lose more than 12,000 in the first three months of 2009. These are not just statistics on a chart. These job losses affect families, and have a real and direct impact to our state and local economies. Clearly, state and local leaders must ramp up efforts to retain and attract jobs to New York.”
The first edition includes a jobs report. The site will be updated each month.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
The best way this association could financially help the folks living in NY State counties is to start advising the county legislators on ways they could start reducing the tax burden by eliminating the extra layer of governance called County Government.
Green Spider