Yearly Archives: 2005

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Spending in New York

December 27, 2005. This report, by FPI Senior Economist Trudi Renwick, reviews the evolution, over the past nine years, of New York State's use of its federal TANF block grant funds and the related "Maintenance of Effort" (MOE) resources. It also presents a preliminary review of the implementation, by social services districts across the state, of the Flexible Fund for Family Services (FFFS), New York's new state-to-local block grant.

2020-11-13T15:12:44-05:00December 27th, 2005|Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Social Policy|
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Who’s right on pension costs – the MTA or the TWU?

December 22, 2005. One of the issues raised by the late December 2005 strike by Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) was the future of pension or retirement plans for American workers.  A debate has also ensued about the validity of the claims by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) that pension costs are a significant cause of its projected budget gaps in 2008 and beyond, and about the pros and cons, from a policy perspective, of the MTA's efforts to cut back on [...]

2020-11-13T14:45:45-05:00December 22nd, 2005|Economic Trends & Policy, Labor Market & Workforce, Letters|
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Comments by Frank J. Mauro on the Budget Reform Constitutional Amendments

October 17, 2005. The comments below were presented by Frank Mauro at a press conference today at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, New York. These comments were based on his September 1, 2005, analysis of the budget reform constitutional amendments. The Fiscal Policy Institute, as an organization, has not taken a position in support of or in opposition to the proposal on the November 8, 2005, ballot. These are the views of Frank Mauro and not those of the Fiscal Policy Institute. The current [...]

2012-03-24T19:19:07-04:00October 17th, 2005|Blog, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, State Budget, Tax & Budget|
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New National Report Offers Sobering Look at Trends in New York’s Early Childhood Education Workforce

September 15, 2005. This issue of Fiscal Policy Note$ takes a look at a comprehensive new report, Losing Ground in Early Childhood Education, from the Economic Policy Institute, the Keystone Research Center, and the Foundation for Child Development. Among the findings: qualifications decline among early childhood education workers with less one fourth now having college degrees. Since the early 1980s, there has been a large and unsettling dip in the qualifications of the early childhood education workers in New York. The share of New York [...]

2020-11-13T15:04:36-05:00September 15th, 2005|Economic Trends & Policy, Education, Labor Market & Workforce, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Social Policy|
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In Manhattan, Poor Make 2¢ for Each Dollar to the Rich

September 4, 2005. Sam Roberts cites FPI's report The State of Working New York City 2005 in his New York Times story on income inequality in New York City. Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue is only about 60 blocks from the Wagner Houses in East Harlem, but they might as well be light years apart. They epitomize the highest- and lowest-earning census tracts in Manhattan, where the disparity between rich and poor is now greater than in any other county in the country. That finding, [...]

2020-11-13T14:48:34-05:00September 4th, 2005|Blog, Economic Outlook, Economic Trends & Policy|
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Little in the Middle

September 4, 2005. An op ed by David Dyssegaard Kallick, New York Times. ON this Labor Day weekend, here's something to think about: New York City's middle class is shrinking. Once a solidly middle-class place, New York has become a city of rich and poor. What's going on, in part, is a worrisome shift in the structure of the New York job market. The economic boom of the 1990's didn't do much to lift middle-income New Yorkers; people in the top 20 percent captured virtually [...]

2020-11-13T14:48:34-05:00September 4th, 2005|Economic Outlook, Economic Trends & Policy, Labor Market & Workforce, Letters|
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State of Working New York 2005: New Yorker Workers Treading Water in a Tenuous Recovery

September 4, 2005. Gains of growth go to corporate profits and high-wage earners, while the middle class shrinks. The tenuous economic recovery of the past two years has been characterized by such weak wage growth that most of New York's working families have been left treading water, according to the latest edition of the State of Working New York.  FPI's State of Working New York series, published biennially since 1999, provides comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the data available on the conditions facing workers and [...]

2020-11-13T14:50:35-05:00September 4th, 2005|Economic Outlook, Economic Trends & Policy, Press Releases, Reports, Briefs and Presentations|
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Understanding and Evaluating the New York State Legislature’s Proposed Budget Process Constitutional Amendments

September 1, 2005. Frank Mauro sets out the legal parameters of the New York State budget process, describes how they would change if the amendments were adopted, analyzes the interrelated concepts upon which the S1/S2 reform package is based, and critiques that approach. Analysis >>

2012-03-24T19:15:22-04:00September 1st, 2005|Reports, Briefs and Presentations, State Budget, Tax & Budget|
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