February 7, 2007. The Tax Policy Center has put together detailed tables showing the various changes by income class and income percentile.
February 7, 2007. Governor Eliot Spitzer's first executive budget is the focus of FPI's seventeenth annual budget briefing: a discussion of economic and fiscal context for the budget, and an analysis of the extent to which the budget helps the state's regions grow together and strengthens and expands the middle class. Briefing book on the 2007-2008 executive budget >>
February 6, 2007. Iris Lav at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explains the impact.
January 25, 2007. An op ed by James Parrott. Albany Times Union.
January 10, 2007. The four-part plan supported by FPI: implement a statewide solution to CFE; increase state's share of Medicaid and base counties' shares on ability to pay; restore commitment to revenue sharing; and eliminate the significant disparities in the STAR program. Prepared for the Center on Governmental Research conference on reforming property taxes in New York.
July 7, 2006. An excerpt from FPI's 2006-2007 budget briefing book. Read the brief >>
June 28, 2006. FPI's release of a new report by Citizens for Tax Justice with state-specific data.
June 5, 2006. New data from the IRS shows that only 1.6% of New York estates (and only 1.2% of all estates nationally) were subject to taxation in 2004. Press release including a fact sheet from Citizens for Tax Justice.
May 24, 2006. Advocates call upon Governor to adopt legislature's bi-partisan agreement on TANF Funds. Press release below. Also see attachments: The Allocation of the New York's TANF Block Grant Funds for 2006-07 and Flexible Fund for Family Services allocations by county. Assemblymember Deborah Glick and Advocates for Low-Income New Yorkers held a press conference today at the Legislative Office Building to urge Governor Pataki to stop playing politics with federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant funds. The groups urged the Governor [...]
May 18, 2006. A new report issued by the Public Policy and Education Fund of New York with the assistance of the Fiscal Policy Institute.
May 5, 2006. Press release below; also, links to additional resources. Roth IRA "Conversion" Gimmick May be Used to Mask the True Cost of New Tax Cut Package Nearing Adoption by Congress As news reports of the last several days have indicated, the chairs of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee have reached an "agreement in principle" on a tax reconciliation bill that would include approximately $70 billion of tax-cut extensions including a two-year extension of the dividends and capital [...]
May 4, 2006. A letter to the editor by FPI Senior Economist Trudi Renwick, commenting on a Times Union editorial (April 19, 2006) on tax cuts being considered by Congress.
May 3, 2006. Groups call upon the Governor to adopt the legislature's bi-partisan agreement on use of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds. Joint release from New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, the Fiscal Policy Institute, the Hunger Action Network of New York State and the Empire Justice Center: Advocates for Low-Income New Yorkers held a press conference today at the Legislative Office Building to urge Governor Pataki to stop playing politics with over $1 billion in federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant [...]
April 3, 2006. Press release: House Budget Calls for Large Cuts in Domestic Programs and Would Worsen Deficit Program Cuts Even Larger Than Those Proposed by President or Senate, Yet Would Be Offset by Tax Cuts and Added Defense-Related Spending The five-year budget plan approved on Wednesday, March 29, 2006, by the US House of Representatives’ Budget Committee is badly out of step with both America’s needs and Americans' concerns for fiscal responsibility and adequate funding of critical services. Both houses of Congress are now [...]
March 22, 2006. State by state estimates from the Citizens for Tax Justice.