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The latest on the Key Bridge collapse, New York puts forth legislation to get clean energy projects on the grid and Wisconsin and other states join a federal summer food program to help feed kids across the country.

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Wall Street Loss Hits New York on Main Street

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Wednesday, September 17, 2008   

Albany, NY — There are many ways to tally the massive losses on Wall Street. Governor David Paterson estimates they could cost New York a billion dollars and 30,000 jobs.

Jason Angell, director of the Center for Working Families in New York, says that what remains to be seen is how state leaders will respond to the worst economic crisis since 2001.

"They could sit back and see what happens and just start cutting services, or they could be pro-active and try to get ahead of it, looking at how we can help out families struggling with rising energy bills and how we can create good jobs in the state."

Angell believes some budget cuts are inevitable, but is hopeful lawmakers will look at ways to cushion their impact on the middle class. He suggests bulk purchasing of prescription drugs and alternatives to mandatory prison sentences as two ways to cut the budget without hurting the middle class.

New York has enacted a small program that subsidizes the cost of weatherizing homes for more than a decade, and Angell believes the current economic crisis is the perfect time to expand the effort.

"Creating this program would reduce families' energy costs as well as creating 30,000 thousand new jobs. Jobs that would not be lower service-sector jobs but good paying careers."

Angel says if New York ramped up to weatherize one million homes in the next five years, that could save the average New York family more than $1000 per year and create thousands of new jobs.

More information is available online at www.cwfny.org.




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