December 3, 2002. A report by James Parrott and Oliver Cooke. Report >>
November 25, 2002. FPI Senior Economist Moshe Adler refutes the assertion that the increase in poverty and the decrease in median family income in New York City during the 1990s were due to immigration. Regional Labor Review, Fall 2002. Study >>
November 25, 2002. New from FPI: the New York City 2003-2004 budget outlook, based on Mayor Bloomberg's November 14, 2002, Financial Plan Update. Briefing materials on the state budget: New York State's 2003-2004 Budget Outlook - a budget alert originally released October 19 and a presentation released September 26, Listing of new tax cuts taking effect in 2002, 2003 and thereafter.
October 31, 2002. A labor market profile prepared for the NYC Employment and Training Coalition by the Fiscal Policy Institute. Read the report >>
October 31, 2002. Individual and family services and job training/vocational rehabilitation services. A labor market profile prepared by the Fiscal Policy Institute, based in part on research supported by the Borough of Manhattan Community College under a United States Department of Labor grant. Read the report >>
October 30, 2002. FPI Senior Economist Trudi Renwick critiques the statistical analyses used by Altreya Consulting LLC for its updated report on the Monroe County Department of Social Services.
October 25, 2002. FPI Senior Economist Trudi Renwick gave this presentation at A Living Wage? Perspectives on the effect of minimum wage increases on community economic development, a forum sponsored by Dutchess County Outreach, the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-kill, and Vassar College.
October 19, 2002. By Frank Mauro. Late last month while discussing a broad range of topics with the editorial board of The (Troy) Record, Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno predicted that New York State faces a budget gap of $8 billion to $10 billion in its 2003-2004 budget. The magnitude of this prediction is obvious when one focuses on the fact that the state's tax supported General Fund budget is about $40 billion. Thus, if Senator Bruno's prediction is accurate, the steps necessary to balance [...]
September 26, 2002. PowerPoint presentation >>
September 26, 2002. Presentation in powerpoint.
September 20, 2002. A new report from the Institute for America's Future estimates that workers and retirees in New York lost $10.78 billion in 401(k) assets in 2001. This report also assesses recent congressional action on retirement security issues. FPI co-released the report in New York.
September 19, 2002. An analysis of the building service industry in NYC and the impact of building-service worker displacement on taxpayers and the low and moderate wage labor markets. Presented by FPI Deputy Director and Chief Economist James Parrott to the NYC City Council's Contracts Committee. Testimony >>
September 18, 2002. This issue of Fiscal Policy Note$ reviews the importance of the mass transit system to the NYC metropolitan area economy, and the importance of restoring NYS and NYC financial support for the MTA to earlier levels. Report >>
September 7, 2002. FPI Senior Economist Trudi Renwick made the keynote address at the Southern Tier Labor-Religion Coalition's annual Solidarity Supper. Her remarks were based on FPI's April release, Pulling Apart: New Studies Find Income Inequality in New York Worst of Any State.
September 1, 2002: This report provides the latest data on how New York state’s workers and their families are faring during the current recession. It also examines the progress made during the period of economic expansion that New York enjoyed before the current recession hit our state at the beginning of 2001, compares New York's situation with other states and with the nation as a whole; and, examines variations within New York State. This Labor Day, New York’s workers face an economy weakened by the [...]