Long Island coalition seeks $1B from Albany for region’s needs
“Middle class, working class, poorer residents and business owners cannot afford to pay for their life. We have heard from well over 1,000 of them sharing with us recommendations on how to make expenses just a little bit easier as costs continue to increase,” Eric Alexander, founder of the Long Island Main Street Alliance and co-chair of the Long Island Lobby Coalition, said in a statement. “Long Island continues to give radically more in taxes, fees and surcharges to Albany than it receives. We need some of these resources back to help ease the pain of ongoing inflation and the economic malaise that has plagued working people since the advent of Coronavirus.”