Monthly Archives: January 2015

New York City Taxes Ripe for Reform

January 13, 2015. The City of New York taxes its wealthiest residents much less than middle- and low-income residents, and state and local officials should fix three major City tax breaks that expire this year, according to a new report from the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI). In a sweeping report that reviews decades of tax changes and trends, FPI pinpoints inequities, tallies the cost of broken tax breaks, and urges tax reforms that reflect today’s economy and current challenges. A report summary is also available. [...]

2020-10-27T13:09:40-04:00January 13th, 2015|City Budget, Press Releases, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Tax & Budget, Tax Policy|
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An Aging U.S. is Revitalized by Immigrants

January 6, 2015. FPI's Immigration Research Initiative David Dyssegaard Kallick was asked to contribute to the New York Times feature, Room for Debate. In the entry, he countered a report that was the focus of the discussion, arguing: To say all of the net gain in employment since 2007 has gone to immigrants, as a recent backgrounder from the Center for Immigration Studies does, is a strained interpretation of the facts, not to mention an odd way to spin positive economic results as something vaguely [...]

2015-01-07T22:43:52-05:00January 6th, 2015|FPI in the News|
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