Yearly Archives: 2011

MinKwon Center for Community Action Annual Gala

October 20, 2011, Queens. On behalf of FPI, James Parrott accepted the Standing Up for Justice Award from the MinKwon Center for Community Action, an advocacy and organizing group working such issues as immigrant rights, fair budgets, housing justice, voter registration and youth empowerment, in order to meet the needs and concerns of the Korean American Community. The award was presented by Chung-Wha Hong, a board member of the MinKwon Center and executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition.

2012-06-23T20:46:00-04:00October 20th, 2011|Past events|
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New group calls for boosting New York mass transit manufacturing

October 11, 2011. Enhanced MTA investments could create good jobs and bolster New York's recovery. While unemployment news remains bleak across the state and country, a recently released white paper, Building New York's Future: Creating Jobs and Business Opportunities Through Mass Transit Investments, points to the benefits of a broad transit manufacturing strategy. A new group - Building New York's Future - has formed with the mission of developing and implementing a mass-transit related economic development strategy, building political commitment to the strategy across the [...]

2020-11-13T14:56:16-05:00October 11th, 2011|Economic Trends & Policy, Press Releases, State Budget, Tax & Budget|
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Defending Public Higher Education

October 7, 2011, Manhattan. A conference organized by the CUNY Graduate Center to explore what is happening to public higher education across the country and why - the challenges and opportunities that CUNY currently faces - and what individual faculty, staff and students can do to support quality education for all. FPI's Frank Mauro and Barbara Bowen of the Professional Staff Congress spoke on Austerity and Its Consequence: Public Higher Education in New York City and New York State. Listen to the presentation and the [...]

2012-06-23T20:45:42-04:00October 7th, 2011|Past events|
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Bloomberg Administration Releases Flawed Living Wage Study

October 5, 2011. Working together, the National Employment Law Project, FPI, and Good Jobs New York find that the study released today ignores basic flaws flagged months ago, flaws in both factual assumptions and research methodologies. And, the study's relevance is questionable, since it fails to account for changes to the living wage proposal announced this month, which clarify that the proposal will not cover the most of the project types comprising the bulk of the study. The study - believed to be the most [...]

2020-11-13T14:58:54-05:00October 5th, 2011|Economic Trends & Policy, Labor Market & Workforce, Press Releases|
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Immigrants Make up Half of All Small Business Owners in NYC

October 3, 2011. New numbers from FPI's Immigration Research Institute show that immigrants make up almost half of all small business owners in New York City. And, immigrants in the labor force are somewhat more likely than U.S.-born workers to own small businesses. Immigrant small business owners are an extremely diverse group, with no single country of origin dominating; in fact, the top ten groups together still make up just 45 percent of the total number of immigrant small business owners. The businesses immigrants own [...]

2020-11-13T14:48:30-05:00October 3rd, 2011|Economic Outlook, Economic Trends & Policy, Migration, Press Releases, Reports, Briefs and Presentations|
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Building the Future of New York State Transit Manufacturing: A Leadership Discussion

September 27, 2011, Manhattan. Sponsored by the national Blue Green Alliance, major transportation unions, the Fiscal Policy Institute and good jobs and transportation equity organizations. With the American political dialogue increasingly focused on jobs, this conference was organized to plan concrete steps to revitalizing the State's transit manufacturing industry. FPI's James Parrott moderated an afternoon panel, "Financing the Future," and co-authored the white paper, Building New York's Future: Creating Jobs and Business Opportunities Through Mass Transit Investments, that was released at the conference. More about [...]

2012-06-23T20:45:27-04:00September 27th, 2011|Past events|
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Building New York’s Future: Creating Jobs and Business Opportunities Through Mass Transit Investments

September 27, 2011. This white paper finds that as New York comes out of the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression, the state can and should pursue a mass transit-related manufacturing strategy, positioning itself as a leader in sustainable transportation while creating good, middle class jobs for New Yorkers. Working toward broad political commitment and securing adequate funding for New York's transit authorities' capital and operating budgets, and for national mass transit infrastructure, are necessary complements.

2020-11-13T14:56:16-05:00September 27th, 2011|Economic Trends & Policy, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, State Budget, Tax & Budget|
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Immigrants and the Economy

September 26, 2011, Pleasantville. A conference sponsored by Neighbors Link Network. FPI's David Dyssegaard Kallick was invited to make a presentation to network board members and board members and key staff of two Neighbors Link affiliates (Mount Kisco and Stamford, CT) as well as volunteers and community leaders. The presentation provided an overview of national and local data and trends; issues addressed included the economic contribution of immigrants to the New York City suburbs, potential wage impacts on U.S.-born workers, and taxes paid by and [...]

2012-06-20T20:14:14-04:00September 26th, 2011|Past events|
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Brooklyn Labor Market Review – Fall 2011

September 26, 2011. Prepared by FPI for the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, the latest issue of the BLMR finds that Brooklyn led all boroughs in job creation and in new firm creation over the last decade. During this period, Brooklyn added 50,000 jobs while the while New York City as a whole lost 16,000. The borough added not only hundreds of restaurants and retail shops but also health care, business and professional service companies.

2020-11-13T14:48:30-05:00September 26th, 2011|Economic Outlook, Economic Trends & Policy, Labor Market & Workforce, Reports, Briefs and Presentations|
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NYC Labor Market Challenges Facing Older Workers

September 22, 2011. FPI's James A. Parrott delivered testimony before the New York City Council Committee on Aging detailing the following points: Unemployment for older workers has continued to increase during the past year and a half, despite the recovery. And many older workers who are still employed have seen their hours, and their weekly pay, reduced. For New York City workers ages 55-64, both unemployment and under-employment are sharply higher now than before the recession began, and higher than at the "trough" of the [...]

2020-11-13T14:50:33-05:00September 22nd, 2011|Economic Outlook, Economic Trends & Policy, Testimony|
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