State Dream Laws and Obama Dream Act Portend a shift in U.S. Immigration Policy
July 7, 2012. A column by Moises Apsan, jornal.us News Service.
July 7, 2012. A column by Moises Apsan, jornal.us News Service.
July 1, 2012. An editorial from the New York Times. Excerpt: Immigrants are known as entrepreneurial people, for obvious reasons: those with the ambition and energy to uproot themselves and build new lives in a distant land are well equipped to build businesses and the economy, too. That is the common wisdom, anyway, which a new study from the Fiscal Policy Institute strikingly confirms. The study, based on census data, looks at owners of small businesses across the country and paints a broad and detailed [...]
June 28, 2012. An article by Alison Vekshin, Business Week. Stockton's approach punishes people with little power to fight back, said Frank Mauro, executive director of the nonpartisan Fiscal Policy Institute, a nonprofit research organization based in Latham, New York. "They’re hurting very vulnerable citizens," Mauro said yesterday by telephone. "What can a retiree who’s been retired for 10 to 15 years already and is living on a fixed income do?" Also posted to Bloomberg News and Financial Advisor magazine.
June 24, 2012. An article by Catherine Curan, New York Post. New York City workers ages 21 to 24 saw their median hourly wages drop 5 percent from 2002 to 2011. Unemployment is so high that workers with a four-year college degree actually saw their wages drop more sharply than workers with less education, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute. "Individual young adults have done the right thing and gone to college, but are not being rewarded for it in this labor market," said James [...]
June 24, 2012. Progressive plan gives break to low-income families, forces rich to pay fair share and boosts city revenue: A column by Albor Ruiz of the Daily News.
June 24, 2012. An article by Melissa Topey, Sandusky (OH) Register.
June 20, 2012. An article by Patrick McGeehan, New York Times. An excerpt: For months now, New York officials have been highlighting how the city has regained all the jobs lost during the long recession and then some. But by several measures, the city's recovery has left black New Yorkers behind. More than half of all of African-Americans and other non-Hispanic blacks in the city who were old enough to work had no job at all this year, according to an analysis of employment data [...]
June 19, 2012. An article by Marcia Heroux Pounds, Broward/Palm Beach Sun Sentinel. South Florida has the highest share - 45 percent - of immigrant business owners, of metropolitan areas in the United States, according to a new analysis by Fiscal Policy Institute, a research group in New York. The study indicates a change since 1990 when the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metropolitan area was tied with Los Angeles in immigrant business ownership, both at 35 percent, the Institute said. Business ownership by immigrants is closely linked [...]
June 19, 2012. At $70 billion, there are undoubtedly cases of waste and inefficiency in the city's budget. A number of watchdog groups say the biggest budget problems facing the city are easy to identify but difficult to tackle. NY1's Bobby Cuza filed the following report as part of NY1's series on the city budget.
June 19, 2012. An article by Sheryl Jean, Dallas Morning News.
June 19, 2012, Newburgh. The program focused on lessons learned from the first year of the state's 2 percent tax cap, along with the ongoing crisis in public finance. FPI's Frank Mauro moderated the plenary panel, "The Crisis in Public Finance." The panel was preceded by a keynote address by Richard Brodsky of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Finances of the City of Yonkers. Agenda.
June 18, 2012. An article by Terry Brodie, Toronto Globe and Mail. 18% of small business owners are immigrants, up from 12% 20 years ago Immigrants to the United States are playing an increasing role in small businesses, with more than one in six such businesses now owned by an immigrant, finds a new study from the Fiscal Policy Institute. The study found that people born in another country comprise 18 per cent of all small business owners, though they make up 13 per cent [...]
June 18, 2012. This report prepared for the New York Women's Foundation shows that the budget cuts proposed in the Mayors Executive Budget fail to respond to heightened needs and jeopardize the outlook for economic improvement and security for many low-income women and their families. The proposed cuts and funding shortfalls increase the risk of poverty in two ways: by destabilizing those already struggling, and by reducing opportunities to move out of poverty. Reducing the reliance on spending cuts to balance the budget will mitigate [...]
June 17, 2012. An article by David W. Chen, New York Times. James A. Parrott, the deputy director of the Fiscal Policy Institute, said that Mr. Bloomberg had good reason to assume that the medallion revenue would flow into city coffers, once Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and lawmakers had agreed to authorize the sale. But Mr. Parrott accused the mayor of not looking hard enough at increasing revenue from the city’s highest earners — a step advocated by one possible mayoral candidate, John C. Liu, [...]
June 17, 2012. Growth tempered a bit by losses in public sector employment. An article by Daniel Massey, Crain's New York. The city economy continued its remarkable run in May, adding 14,100 private-sector jobs and bringing the total to 70,100 for the first five months of the year, according to an analysis of state Department of Labor data released last week. The unemployment rate ticked up slightly, to 9.7% from 9.5%, but that increase was because job growth did not keep pace with a jump [...]