Monthly Archives: March 2000

Most Relief Comes from the State Earned Income Tax Credit Enacted in 1994 New York has among the lowest income tax burdens in the country for low-income working families.1 Of the 42 states with income taxes, only Vermont and Minnesota do a better job than New York in shielding both poverty-line incomes and minimum wage-earnings from income taxation. New York is one of only four states in which near-poor two-parent families of four — those with incomes at 125 percent of the poverty line — [...]

March 2000. FPI prepares the Budget Process Reform section of Counterbudget, which is coordinated and published each year by SENSES, the Statewide Emergency Network for Social and Economic Security. Counterbudget provides an analysis of the Governor's Executive Budget Proposal and its impact on low-income New Yorkers focusing on the programs and policies identified as priority issues by the SENSES network of over 2500 human service, religious, labor, economic development and low-income organizations - issues including economic development, public assistance, health care, hunger and nutrition, housing, [...]

March 2000. FPI prepares the Revenue section of Counterbudget, which is coordinated and published each year by SENSES, the Statewide Emergency Network for Social and Economic Security. Counterbudget provides an analysis of the Governor's Executive Budget Proposal and its impact on low-income New Yorkers focusing on the programs and policies identified as priority issues by the SENSES network of over 2500 human service, religious, labor, economic development and low-income organizations - issues including economic development, public assistance, health care, hunger and nutrition, housing, taxes and [...]

March 15, 2000. A copy of the letter below was sent to each of the 50 governors. Ms. Johnson is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives. The Honorable Don Siegelman Governor of Alabama State Capitol 600 Dexter Avenue Montgomery, AL 36130-2751 Dear Governor Siegelman: As you may recall, I wrote last year urging you and other governors to increase the rate at which TANF money is spent, because there is so much states can [...]

March 6, 2000. William Tuthill reports in the Capital District Business Review: New York state's array of economic development programs, in which  millions of dollars are annually loaned or given to spur businesses and create jobs,  lack adequate means of measuring their own effectiveness, according to a  report by State Comptroller H. Carl McCall. There are not enough tools in place to show whether funded projects  have resulted in the increase or retention of jobs, the report said. It is an  argument McCall has made [...]