Provide Education Grants: For business owners and employees for courses necessary to support and operate their businesses.

Manufacturer’s State Tax Credit: Create a state tax credit for manufacturers equal to 2.5 percent of each new employee’s salary.

Industrial Development Agency Reform: Provide greater transparency, oversight and increased public participation when taxpayer money is used for economic development, and subject IDA projects to prevailing wage labor laws.

Increase Main Street Revitalization: Provide grants to upgrade and renovate downtown and main street building facades.

Small Business Health Insurance Tax Credit: Give business income tax credits to small-business owners who provide health insurance to their employees.

Small Business Training Tax Credit: Make available a tax credit equal to the amount expended by businesses that provide job training to upgrade, retain or improve the productivity or skill level of their employees.

Hunting and Fishing Task Force: As a member of the Assembly minority conference’s Hunting and Fishing Task Force, Assemblyman Finch is developing legislation and making recommendations based on information gathered from anglers and hunters at public forums to promote New York’s hunting and fishing industries.

Waterfront Development: Provide funding for the development of waterfront areas vital to the economic and social lives of the communities they serve.

Provide Tax Credits for Job Retention: Offer Empire Zone-style tax credits to businesses that maintain current employment levels.

Medicaid Reform: Assemblyman Finch wants to reform New York’s wasteful Medicaid program, saving property owners up to 10 percent of the $45 billion annual program cost.

Provide Small Businesses with Energy Tax Reductions.