Monthly Archives: May 2016

Nearly 1 million NYS workers will benefit from new Federal overtime rule

May 18, 2016. FPI applauds the White House and Labor Secretary Thomas Perez in announcing a new federal overtime regulation today requiring overtime pay for most salaried workers earning up to $47,476 a year (or $913 weekly). FPI’s James Parrott stated, “This will benefit an estimated 982,000 New York salaried workers with either additional pay for more than 40 hours a week, or by scaling back the long hours they work each week without any reduction in pay.” The Washington, D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute, a [...]

2016-05-18T13:52:39-04:00May 18th, 2016|Economic Trends & Policy, Press Releases, Reports, Briefs and Presentations|
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A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service

May 12, 2016. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is under attack by forces that favor privatization and oppose sensible proposals to invest in expanding its package delivery services and in re-introducing postal banking services that exist in many countries and that were provided in the United States from 1910 to 1966. With the Postal Service’s unparalleled network of post offices in every neighborhood and village in the country, postal banking has the potential to provide affordable, consumer-friendly financial services to lower-income households and communities that [...]

2020-11-13T14:56:15-05:00May 12th, 2016|Economic Outlook, Economic Trends & Policy, Labor Market & Workforce, Testimony|
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2016 FPI Awards Celebration in Albany

June 1, 2016, Albany. The Fiscal Policy Institute is honoring Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Congressman Paul Tonko, and NYSUT President Karen Magee at a fundraiser benefitting the Fiscal Policy Institute on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Empire State Plaza's Albany Room. You may register online. 

2020-12-21T14:48:16-05:00May 12th, 2016|Fact Sheets|
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