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MTA officials acknowledged at their June 2019 Board meetings that the agency is borrowing money to be repaid through a New York State law that promised to have the State of New York give the MTA $7.3 billion once the agency had exhausted its own funds on spending for the current Capital Program. The State…
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New York City is now utterly dominating job growth in the State of New York. In the past two and one-half years, 79% of all new jobs in the State have been created in New York City. New York State Labor Department seasonally adjusted data show that 230,000 of the nearly 293,000 jobs created in…
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Fox News Aug. 11-13 1013 RV Survey USA Aug.1-Aug.5 5,459 RV IBD/TIPP July 25-Aug.1 856 RV Emerson July 27-29 1,233 RV
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A Politico/Morning Consult poll released today, August 8th, shows 70% of U.S. registered voters support an assault weapons ban. The poll, conducted August 5-7,2019, among 1960 registered voters, was taken after the public had learned of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that killed 31 people and wounded dozens of others.…
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United States Bureau of Labor Statistics employment growth data for the nation showed employment decline beginning during the Great Recession in February 2008, when employment dropped 82,000 from January 2008, at 138.42 million, to 138.34 million, in February 2008. Job losses reached 8.7 million before finally bottoming out in February 2010 at 129.715 million. During…
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Two very recent national Polls Show the “ Public Option, “ or Medicare For-All-Who-Want-It, Offer the Democratic Party a Stronger Hand in Winning the 2020 Election than Medicare for All, which would replace private insurance with a government plan. The two polls closely divide on Medicare for All, the government plan, with the public supportive…
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The State Already has the Lowest Greenhouse Gas Emissions Per Capita of Any State in the Nation and is Going Forward New York State has just enacted a plan to bring its planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions to 15% of 1990 levels by 2050 and provide enough “ carbon-emission offsets “ like forestation and wetlands reclamation…
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From Real Clear Politics 6/5/2019, featuring polls from Quinnipiac and DetroitNews/WDIV-TV., for Texas and Michigan From Real Clear Politics, 6/4/2019, featuring Emerson Poll for North Carolina These 3 new polls from two swing states, Michigan and North Carolina, and a red state, Texas, that some analysts believe may become competitive for the Democrats, continue to show…
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A Quinnipiac poll on the Presidential Election released on May 15th, 2019, shows both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders defeating Donald Trump by eleven and seven points, respectively. Biden wins 53-42 and Sanders wins 50-43. Warren wins by three, 47-44, (inside the poll’s margin of error of 4 pts.), while Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, and…
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New York State had achieved the highest percentage of residents with health insurance coverage of the four most populous states in the country by 2017, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, one of the nation’s leading health research organizations. Ninety-four percent of New York’s residents had health insurance coverage that year; California was second, with…