September 27, 2005. A special supplement to the 2005 edition of the Fiscal Policy Institute's biennial report on the State of Working New York. Presentation >>
September 21, 2005. Testimony by Trudi Renwick, FPI senior economist, before the NYS Assembly Committee on Social Services.
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 [...]
September 15, 2005. An open letter to members of Congress and concerned individuals and groups on the Gulf Coast.
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 >>
September 1, 2005. A boon to New York economic development or a costly giveaway? You be the judge. This report by Michael Mazerov of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities is an update of a study first published March 27, 2001. Report >>