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No More Candy Store? Subsidy Reform in New York

January 7th, 2010 by Homeless Alliance

What are we getting for the $6 billion or so New York State spends each year in business subsidies? Why does Buffalo-Niagara have 9 industrial development agencies when New York City has only one? What are the costs and benefits of greening our developments? Explore these and other questions at a PPG forum on Tuesday, July 20, 4pm to 5:30pm, at 237 Main St., Suite 1200. Allison Duwe, executive director of the Coalition for Economic Justice, will moderate a panel including developer David Sweet, green architect Roxanne Button, and others. Free and open to the public. To guarantee a seat, email Megan Connelly, megan@ppgbuffalo.org, by July 16.

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