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 >>… (read more)

February 2002. This report was jointly developed by officials of the Schuyler Center for Advocacy and Analysis (SCAA) and the New York State Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), and is supported by the other relevant agencies of state government, the Governor’s office, and a broad array of human service advocacy organization statewide.… (read more)

February 4, 2002. FPI’s testimony before the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees’ Joint Public Hearing on the Human Services portion of the 2002-2003 Executive Budget. Focuses primarily on the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program.… (read more)

December 7, 2001. These fact sheets were distributed at the GULP/FPI TANF Reauthorization Forum held in New York City today. See also the summary data sheet for New York City’s five counties and the summary data sheet for Congressional districts 5-18.

COUNTIES County-specific data for New York City’s counties can be found on these summary sheets. Bronx Kings New York Queens Richmond CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS Data from the Census Bureau’s 2000 Supplementary Survey for NYC Congressional Districts. 5th Congressional District… (read more)

November 30, 2001. Comments from FPI submitted to the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Also see:

• Welfare reform and social indicators: county-specific data (fall 2001) and NYC data (December 7, 2001). These fact sheets show (1) trends in poverty and other social and economic indicators since the advent of welfare reform and (2) changes in the use of temporary assistance, medicaid and food stamps during this period.
• FPI presentation: TANF Reauthorization (November 2001).

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Fall 2001. These fact sheets were prepared for the GULP/FPI TANF Reauthorization Forums in upstate New York. They present data on:

1. trends in poverty and other social and economic indicators since the advent of welfare reform,
2. changes in the use of temporary assistance, medicaid and food stamps during this period, and
3. several key county policies.

Counties Albany Allegany Broome Cattaraugus Cayuga Chautauqua Chemung Chenango Clinton Columbia Cortland Delaware Dutchess Erie Essex Franklin Fulton Genesee Greene Hamilton Herkimer Jefferson Lewis Livingston… (read more)

July 6, 2001. Comments prepared by FPI’s Frank Mauro for the state’s Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance, on a proposed amendment to Title 18 of New York Codes, Rules and Regulations, with respect to exceptions to 5-year time limits.… (read more)

May 16, 2001. An article by Erika Rosenberg, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, related to a briefing prepared by the Campaign for the Empire State Jobs Program.

New York needs a $190 million program to help thousands of families approaching the five-year time limit for receiving welfare benefits, advocates for the poor said yesterday.

About 63,000 welfare cases — including 2,095 in Monroe County — are expected to hit a federal time limit in December, according to the latest … (read more)

May 16, 2001. An article by Elizabeth Benjamin, Albany Times-Union, related to a briefing prepared by the Campaign for the Empire State Jobs Program: a state-subsidized program would aid thousands reaching end of 5-year benefits limit.

Labor unions and activists on Tuesday called on lawmakers to approve a $190 million program to provide 8,000 state-subsidized jobs for people who will hit a five-year time limit for federal welfare benefits in December.

The program proposed in a bill sponsored … (read more)

May 15, 2001. The Fiscal Policy Institute joined the other members of the Campaign for the Empire State Jobs Program to organize a briefing on the program for state officials. The Empire State Jobs program is a transitional employment program that would provide work experience, training and other needed support services to public assistance recipients with serious barriers to employment and little or no paid work experience, particularly those who are close to reaching the five-year time limit on family … (read more)