{"id":95272,"date":"2018-06-19T20:32:06","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T00:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=95272"},"modified":"2018-06-19T12:33:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T16:33:18","slug":"guest-column-speak-out-central-new-york-releases-layoff-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=95272","title":{"rendered":"GUEST COLUMN: Speak Out Central New York releases layoff report"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Speak Out Central New York releases layoff report<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eight hundred Central New Yorkers lost their jobs after Katko and Tenney passed the TrumpTax; state Department of Labor numbers reveal zero job growth and hundreds of layoffs despite promises from Katko and Tenney;\u00a0Katko and Tenney congressional districts have some of highest unemployment in New York state<\/h5>\n

By Will Brunelle<\/em><\/p>\n

More than 800 Central New Yorkers living in the congressional districts of Claudia Tenney and John Katko have been laid-off in the six months since the Republicans passed President Trump\u2019s disastrous tax plan in December of 2017. According to a survey of the state Department of Labor notices and unemployment statistics, 476 New Yorkers have been laid off in Katko\u2019s NY-24, and another 338 have been laid off in Tenney\u2019s NY-22.<\/p>\n

Speak Out Central New York\u2019s research also found that unemployment rates across Central New York have either remained unchanged or, in most cases, continued to trend upward, while the region remains having some of the highest unemployment rates in New York.<\/p>\n

Congressmembers Tenney and Katko \u2013 both staunch advocates of the TrumpTax \u2013 have publicly echoed President Trump\u2019s claim that the plan would act as \u201crocket fuel\u201d for the economy. Prior to the bill\u2019s passage, Katko pitched the tax plan to constituents in his district, stating he \u201creally believes that if we enact this tax reform, jobs will start coming back to New York State.\u201d Tenney propagated the bill as a driver of economic growth, claiming \u201cwe are experiencing record job growth under President Trump and Republican leadership. Middle-income families will continue to see tax cuts and job growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moody\u2019s and even conservative economists agree<\/a>\u00a0have noted that the immediate beneficiaries of corporate tax cuts would be shareholders\u2014not working class Americans. This has proven true across the country, particularly here in Central New York.<\/p>\n

Speak Out Central New York pulled layoff data from filings required under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act which paints a starkly different picture than that provided by Trump, Katko and Tenney. To date, there have been 814 layoffs across the two congressional districts in Central New York:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company in Congresswoman Tenney\u2019s NY-22<\/td>\n# of Layoffs<\/td>\nCompany in<\/p>\n

Congressman Katko\u2019s<\/p>\n

NY-24<\/td>\n

# of Layoffs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Premier Aviation Overhaul Center<\/td>\n127<\/td>\nSam\u2019s Club<\/td>\n151<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Conduent Education Services<\/td>\n121<\/td>\nOsmose Utility Services<\/td>\n101<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harden Furniture<\/td>\n90<\/td>\nCayuga Home for Children in Auburn<\/td>\n119<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\nExpressmart Franchising Corp.<\/td>\n53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 <\/td>\n <\/td>\nPhysical and Occupational Rehabilitation Therapy and Speech Services<\/td>\n52<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Numbers from the New York State Department of Labor<\/a>\u00a0also\u00a0support Speak Out Central New York\u2019s findings, showing unemployment rates rising or staying flat in the area. In the Utica-Rome and Binghamton areas (in NY-22) the unemployment rates went up .1% from November of 2017 to 5.3 % and 5.4% respectively in April of 2018.<\/p>\n

According to the most recent unemployment report by the New York State Department of Labor, when broken down by region, the Utica-Rome and Binghamton metro areas \u2013 both inside Tenney\u2019s congressional district \u2013 have the 2ndand 3rd\u00a0highest unemployment rates in all of New York State.<\/p>\n

In addition to a growing unemployment rate, the Trump Tax is responsible for a colossal $2.2 trillion\u00a0blow to the national deficit<\/a>, the repeal of the individual mandate which will cause health insurance policies to\u00a0surge<\/a>, and tax hikes for hard-working Americans as the majority of tax relief from the bill\u2019s $1.5 trillion corporate tax cut will go to the wealthiest Americans.<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: Will Brunelle is spokesman for Speak Out Central New York.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speak Out Central New York releases layoff report Eight hundred Central New Yorkers lost their jobs after Katko and Tenney passed the TrumpTax; state Department of Labor numbers reveal zero job growth and hundreds of layoffs despite promises from Katko and Tenney;\u00a0Katko and Tenney congressional districts have some of highest unemployment in New York state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23677,23808,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-opinion","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}