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Friday, January 06, 2012  Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $25 billion jobs and development package that was the cornerstone of his State of the State speech isn't a big new spending package at all.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011  Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the state-run website for job seekers now lists 52,000 openings statewide.

Friday, January 07, 2011  Gov. Andrew Cuomo is assigning the State University of New York a high-profile role to help turn around the state's economy, after the school got a decade of underfunding and little attention from Albany despite enrollment increases.

Friday, November 12, 2010  State labor officials are preparing for the possibility that 200,000 New Yorkers could lose their unemployment benefits if Congress fails to extend the emergency benefits.

Thursday, November 11, 2010  Democratic Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday the state cannot continue to employ people at prisons or other public facilities if their jobs are no longer needed.

Monday, October 11, 2010  A think tank's new analysis details New York's loss of jobs over 15 years and finds the net loss stood at more than 148,000 jobs, the most of any state.

Thursday, March 05, 2009  The state unemployment rate is lower than the national rate, which is 8.5%.