April 16, 2007. An article by James Parrott, FPI's deputy director and chief economist, in the Gotham Gazette. Article >>
April 9, 2007. A letter to the editor by James Parrott. New York Times.
March 19, 2007. An op ed by James Parrott. Crains.
January 29, 2007. An op ed by David Dyssegaard Kallick. Crains.
January 29, 2007. An op ed by David Dyssegaard Kallick. Buffalo News.
January 25, 2007. An op ed by James Parrott. Albany Times Union.
June 11, 2006. Point/counterpoint on public pension policy in the New York Daily News. No. Municipal workers deserve a decent retirement. By James A. Parrott, Fiscal Policy Institute While Mayor Bloomberg is taking a prudent step in establishing a retiree health trust fund, he has taken a wrong turn in seeking to reduce pension benefits for newly hired city workers. Many large corporations, from United Airlines to Delphi to IBM, have destroyed or diluted the promises they made to their employees about retirement security. Some [...]
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.
January 2006. The State Legislature must act to provide New York with new revenues - and more equity. An op ed by Frank Mauro, The Clarion.
December 22, 2005. One of the issues raised by the late December 2005 strike by Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) was the future of pension or retirement plans for American workers. A debate has also ensued about the validity of the claims by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) that pension costs are a significant cause of its projected budget gaps in 2008 and beyond, and about the pros and cons, from a policy perspective, of the MTA's efforts to cut back on [...]
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 [...]
June 6, 2005. While Pataki and Bloomberg push for a Manhattan-JFK link, more pressing projects are at risk. An op ed by FPI Senior Fellow David Dyssegaard Kallick, Newsday. Read >>
May 23, 2005. This deduction is a key element of American federalism and a protection against double taxation: Allowing taxpayers to deduct the state and local taxes that they pay in calculating their federal income tax liability is an essential part of a governmental system in which the federal and state governments have independent sovereign taxing authority. In the American federal system, when people pay state and local taxes, they have less money left over to pay federal taxes. Thus, when it comes to the [...]
January 19, 2005. An op ed in the New York Daily News by James Parrott, FPI Chief Economist, on the financing of far West Side development. Read >>
November 29, 2004. A letter to the editor by FPI's senior economist, Trudi Renwick, Albany Times Union. Your Nov. 12 editorial about the rise of poverty among working families in New York correctly pointed out that one solution to this problem would be an increase in the state's minimum wage. In July, both the Senate and Assembly passed a bill to increase the state's minimum wage. The bill, which would have established a state minimum wage of $6 per hour on Jan. 1, $6.75 per [...]