Yearly Archives: 2013

Tax Reformers Urge Governor and Legislature to Take the Politics out of the Tax Debate—And Give the Public a Voice!

September 4, 2013. Statewide tax reform groups and activists from across New York State gathered at the State Capitol today to urge the Governor and the State Senate to “shed a little sunshine” on the tax reform debates that have left many New Yorkers “out in the cold.” The NYS Senate (through its Finance Committee, and its Investigations and Government Operations Committees) is holding “Invitation Only” hearings across the state to “Review Existing Tax Policy and Discuss Reform Initiatives” and the Governor’s Tax Reform and [...]

Anthony Troia2013-09-05T08:22:32-04:00September 4th, 2013|City Budget, Press Releases, State Budget, Tax & Budget, Tax Policy|

FPI Testimony at Senate Hearing Urges Balanced Approach to Tax Reform

September 4, 2013. In testimony before the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and the Senate Committee on Investigations and Government Operations, Frank Mauro, FPI’s Executive Director, expressed support for a thorough review of the tax system from a number of perspectives. He indicated that back in December 2011, Governor Cuomo and the legislative leaders joined in calling for a thorough review of the fairness of the New York tax system and agreed that fairness is one important basis for evaluating the workings of any tax [...]

Anthony Troia2013-09-05T10:45:41-04:00September 4th, 2013|City Budget, State Budget, Tax & Budget, Tax Policy, Testimony|

State of Working New York 2013: Workers Are Paying a High Price for Persistent Unemployment

August 28, 2013. New York workers are paying a high price for persistent unemployment four years into the weakest recovery since the Great Depression, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute’s (FPI) 2013 edition of The State of Working New York. The report notes that in addition to lost job opportunities and health benefits, New York workers are suffering from prolonged periods of joblessness, and high rates of underemployment (or “hidden unemployment”), reflecting more discouraged workers who have given up looking for work. Moreover, out-of-work New [...]

Anthony Troia2020-11-13T14:50:32-05:00August 28th, 2013|Economic Outlook, Economic Trends & Policy, Must Read, Press Releases, Reports, Briefs and Presentations|

Patterns of Income Polarization in New York City

August 13, 2013. "Patterns of Income Polarization in New York City," is a presentation given by James Parrott at a session of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting held in New York City.

Anthony Troia2020-11-13T14:27:58-05:00August 13th, 2013|Economic Trends & Policy, Labor Market & Workforce, Reports, Briefs and Presentations|

The Next NYC Mayor’s Biggest Economic Challenge: Promoting Equitable Growth

August 12, 2013. “Promoting Equitable Growth” was the answer FPI’s James Parrott gave to the question, “What is the biggest economic challenge facing the next mayor of New York City?” Parrott’s response appeared recently in The New York Times’ “Room for Debate” on-line feature. Noting that income polarization is “America’s greatest challenge,” Parrott proposed that “The next mayor needs to infuse a growth agenda with recognition that more New Yorkers should share in the prosperity that results when individual efforts are combined with socially created [...]

Anthony Troia2020-11-13T14:27:58-05:00August 12th, 2013|Economic Trends & Policy, Labor Market & Workforce, Letters|

JobsFirstNYC Community-Based Organization Meeting

July 23, 2013, Manhattan. JobsFirstNYC hosts their quarterly Community-Based Organization (CBO) Network meeting. The agenda will include discussion around the New York City budget, what the next administration is poised to inherit and what the workforce development agenda should look like. James Parrott, the deputy director and chief economist at the Fiscal Policy Institute, will be there to present on this topic. Register here. JobsFirstNYC's CBO Meetings are standing, quarterly events convened for front-line, managerial, senior, and executive staff who work in organizations committed to [...]

Anthony Troia2020-12-21T14:48:17-05:00July 17th, 2013|Fact Sheets|

How Immigration Reform Could Help Black Workers

July 15, 2013. An ABCNews-Univision story looks at the impact of immigration reform on black workers, citing work and commentary from the Fiscal Policy Institute. David Dyssegaard Kallick, a senior fellow at the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI), looked at the economic impact of immigrants in a 2010 report focused on Long Island, New York... Among the social challenges to African American men who did not go to college, immigration would come below a long list of other concerns, from high incarceration rates to racial discrimination in the [...]

Anthony Troia2013-07-18T15:18:37-04:00July 15th, 2013|FPI in the News|

Insulting a Poem, and our Heritage (A Daily News Op-Ed)

July 14, 2013. In an op-ed for the Daily News, by David Dyssegaard Kallick takes on the ways Emma Lazarus's famous poem ("give me your tired, your poor...") has distorted in recent media stories about immigration, and brings the debate back to America's roots. “Give me your tired, your poor . . . If there’s room after more Ph.D.s,” is the headline from a recent article in TechCrunch, which goes on to explain Congress’ “awe-inspiring consensus over its support for high-skilled immigrants.” What we really [...]

Anthony Troia2013-07-18T15:12:28-04:00July 14th, 2013|Letters, Migration|

Republicans Give Immigrants a Reality Check on Expecting Immigration Reform

July 14, 2013. New York Daily News cites the Report done by Taxation and Economic Policy and Fiscal Policy Institute regarding the possible tax contribution to the states if there is an immigration reform. A report released Wednesday by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy in Washington, DC, and the Fiscal Policy Institute in Manhattan estimates that legalizing undocumented immigrants, who currently pay $744 million in state and local taxes, would increase that figure by $224 million. “It’s reassuring to see that (reform ) [...]

Anthony Troia2013-07-18T15:19:27-04:00July 14th, 2013|FPI in the News|

Analysis: Immigrant Status Change Could Mean Millions in Tax Revenue for NY

July 10, 2013. A Newsday article covers the release of a great new report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy report about how legalizing undocumented immigrants would affect state and local tax revenues. The ITEP report builds on work ITEP did with the Fiscal Policy Institute around our report on how immigration reform would boost productivity. David Dyssegaard Kallick, immigration research director at the Fiscal Policy Institute, said there is no better alternative than for all those immigrants to become taxpayers. "As long [...]

Anthony Troia2013-07-10T17:56:33-04:00July 10th, 2013|FPI in the News|

White House report: immigration reform significantly boosts economy

July 10, 2013. NBC-Latino reports on a White House study about the benefits of immigration reform, citing FPI data. The report also points out that immigrants already in the U.S. make a case for immigration’s economic benefits: a 2007 study by the Fiscal Policy Institute found that immigrant-owned small businesses generated about $776 billion in receipts and employed about 4.7 million people.

Anthony Troia2013-07-11T17:45:57-04:00July 10th, 2013|FPI in the News|

White House Plays Offense: Says Immigration Reform Will Turbocharge Entrepreneurship

July 10, 2013. A news article in Entrepreneur covers the release of a new report from the White House, which cites Fiscal Policy Institute data about small business owners. Immigrants are more likely to be entrepreneurs than U.S. natives: Immigrants and their children have founded Google, Disney, Procter & Gamble and 40 percent of America's 500 largest companies, the report says. Immigrants, typically motivated to improve their standing in life, are more than two times as likely to start businesses than those born in the [...]

Anthony Troia2013-07-11T17:22:04-04:00July 10th, 2013|FPI in the News|

The Economic Benefits of Fixing Our Broken Immigration System

July 10, 2013. The Executive Office of the President issued a new report on the economic benefits of immigration reform, including several references to Fiscal Policy Institute studies, among them: A study by the Fiscal Policy Institute found that in 2007, immigrant-owned small businesses generated a total of $776 billion in receipts and employed an estimated 4.7 million people.

Anthony Troia2013-07-18T14:38:39-04:00July 10th, 2013|FPI in the News|

New Report Models Immigration Reform’s Effect on State and Local Taxes

July 10, 2013. This morning, the Institute on Economic and Tax Policy (ITEP) released a report that estimates that unauthorized immigrants currently pay $744 million in state and local taxes in New York State, a number that would increase to $968 million if these same immigrants were granted legal status. The share of family income paid in state and local taxes would increase from 7.1 percent to 8.4 percent. In this new report, ITEP takes an analysis it first did for the Fiscal Policy Institute’s [...]

Anthony Troia2013-07-10T08:58:58-04:00July 10th, 2013|Blog, Migration|