Cuomo: DiNapoli ‘should educate himself’ on job-creation incentives
Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Buffalo area Tuesday pointedly called out state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli and the Legislature for recent criticisms of the state’s incentivized jobs programs.
“I think he’s dead wrong,” Cuomo said flatly of DiNapoli’s questioning of tax break programs used for economic development. “He should educate himself in the area.”
DiNapoli has scrutinized various state jobs programs, including the Start-Up NY and the Excelsior Jobs programs, and has questioned whether state incentives are actually worth the money being spent. A DiNapoli audit of Start-Up last year found a national advertising campaign cost at least $45.1 million, but the state’s annual Start-Up report showed what’s been criticized as a small bang for the buck in terms of actual jobs created thus far by the program.
A scathing audit on the Excelsior program released in July spanked the state Empire State Development Corp. for a lack of proper oversight of the program. ESDC called DiNapoli’s report inaccurate.
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