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Upstate New York tech hub wins $40 million federal investment
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WASHINGTON (The Buffalo News) − The upstate New York “tech hub” between Buffalo and Syracuse will receive $40 million in federal funding in an attempt to make the region home to a reborn American microchip industry.
Dottie Gallagher, president and CEO of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, said none of this would have happened if Schumer hadn’t proposed and then fought for legislation creating the federal tech hub program.
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