March 3, 2003. Includes updated tables on TANF block grant spending, minimum wage workers, disposable income of New York SSI recipients, and each county's public assistance shelter allowance as a percent of its Fair Market Rent. Testimony >>
February 26, 2003. Presented by FPI's Frank Mauro. Testimony >>
February 12, 2003. Released at FPI's annual budget briefing, this analysis is based on Mayor Bloomberg's January 28 Financial Plan for FY 2003-2007. Presentation >>
February 12, 2003. A short summary of the academic literature on this subject, and a critique of the New York State and New York City "tax impact" models prepared by the Beacon Hill Institute for the Heritage Foundation and the Manhattan Institute.
February 4, 2003. The Fiscal Policy Institute's 13th annual budget briefing: analysis of Governor George E. Pataki's Executive Budget and alternative approaches to balancing New York State's 2003-2004 budget. Briefing book on the 2003-2004 executive budget >> This PowerPoint version of the briefing book has most of the same charts and graphs but condenses the text with bullet points. Despite Governor Pataki’s recent pronouncements regarding the relationship between jobs and cuts in broad based taxes, the large personal income tax cuts that New York implemented [...]
January 2003. From the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy, this chart and table show the impact of state and local taxes (by type of tax, in total before taking federal deductibility into consideration, and in total after taking federal deductibility into consideration) on the family incomes of non-elderly New Yorkers broken down into seven income categories, ranging from the bottom 20% (taxpayers with incomes of less than $15,000) to the top 1% (taxpayers with incomes above $634,000). (PDF)
January 27, 2003. An op ed in the New York Daily News by David Dyssegaard Kallick. Read >>
January 23, 2003. Below, an op ed by FPI senior economist Moshe Adler, New York Times. At its first formal meeting, the new federal board overseeing the accounting profession proved George Stigler right. Mr. Stigler, who died in 1991, won a Nobel in economics for showing why regulated industries end up co-opting their regulators. At their meeting earlier this month, board members voted themselves annual salaries of $452,000 each, affirming that they are first and foremost interested in their own well-being. Perhaps we should dismantle [...]
January 17, 2003. Testimony by Matthew T. Mitchell before the Transportation Committee of the Council of the City of New York. Testimony >>