WAMC New York News
(2009-07-07)
WASHINGTON, DC
(WXXI) -
US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is supporting a series of measures to reduce costs and increase efficiencies for small and medium-sized businesses.Gillibrand supports the SHOP Act which would allow businesses to buy into insurance pools with other companies, thereby reducing their health care costs.
Gillibrand is also co-sponsoring the IMPACT Act, which she says would create a revolving loan fund for manufacturers. She says the fund is designed to help small and medium-sized businesses develop clean-energy operations.
And Gillibrand wants to create financial incentives to encourage upgrades for short-line railroads. She says freight rail reduces both emissions and highway congestion, and saves money for businesses.
Gillibrand says New York State has lost more than 160,000 manufacturing jobs since 2001--nearly 27,000 of them in the Rochester and Finger Lakes region. © Copyright 2012, WXXI
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