Cuomo agenda: Transportation, wage hike, business tax cut
ALBANY— New York must raise the minimum wage, cut small-business taxes, ease the burden of high property taxes and invest big in transportation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday in a sprawling address that laid out a long list of priorities for 2015.
In the first State of the State address of his second term, the Democratic governor also called for efforts to make public education more accountable and vowed to address concerns about police misconduct and officer safety.
Most of Cuomo’s agenda is contained within a $141.6 billion state budget proposal released Wednesday. The budget now goes to state lawmakers for review.