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N.Y. workers’-compensation rate to decline in 2024

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York expects employers statewide to save more than $50 million in 2024 with a reduced annual workers’-compensation assessment rate. The rate was set Nov. 1 and goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2024, the office of Gov. Kathy Hochul said.  For 2024, the workers’-compensation assessment rate will be 9.2 percent of

Farm bill one-year extension includes farmer-payment program

The Farm Bill is now operating on a one-year extension, having been included in the continuing resolution budget deal that President Joe Biden signed Nov. 17.  That’s according to the office of U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.), which also noted that Schumer secured the one-year extension of the Farm Bill in that legislation. 

Stakeholders discuss broadband access at Binghamton conference

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Local and state leaders recently met in Binghamton for the Second Annual Upstate Rural Broadband Conference to highlight projects underway in the region and to identify funding opportunities to speed up the deployment of high-speed networks in the Southern Tier and Central New York regions. “Our goal is to make high-speed broadband

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