Gov. Hochul, in First State of the State Speech, Promises Tax Credits and Investments
her first State of the State address step up efforts to recruit and retrain more teachers improved training, faster and earlier certification, and stronger career pipelines She also announced $100 million worth of relief for 195,000 small businesses first, that frontline health care workers and first responders--who, she pointed out, are "not only physically exhausted, they're emotionally exhausted too"--would receive retention bonuses of up to $3,000 to invest in the State University of New York (SUNY) network major transit infrastructure projects $500 million worth of investments in climate resilience new initiatives for tracking guns used in crimes creating a new, stronger, ethics watchdog in Albany.