Tax & Budget

Over $1 Billion in TANF Block Grant Funds Trapped in Budget Limbo

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 [...]

2020-11-13T15:11:24-05:00May 3rd, 2006|Press Releases, Social Policy, State Budget, Tax & Budget|
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House of Representatives’ proposed FY 2007 budget plan calls for large cuts in domestic programs while increasing the federal budget deficit

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 [...]

2020-10-27T13:07:10-04:00April 3rd, 2006|Press Releases, Tax & Budget|
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Balancing Revenues, Expenditures and Human Needs in a Troubled Time

February 15, 2006. Testimony of Frank J. Mauro, Executive Director, Fiscal Policy Institute, presented to the Joint Budget Hearing on Economic Development and Taxes before the Assembly Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees. The centerpiece of the 2006-07 Executive Budget is a return to the pre-2001 practice of enacting large multi-year, backloaded tax cuts.   The myriad of tax reductions being proposed by the Governor would reduce state revenues by about $1 billion in 2006-07.  But because the proposed tax reductions would take effect in [...]

2020-11-13T14:56:19-05:00February 15th, 2006|Economic Trends & Policy, State Budget, Tax & Budget, Tax Policy, Testimony|
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Balancing New York State’s 2006-2007 Budget in an Economically Sensible Manner

January 31, 2006. The Fiscal Policy Institute's analysis of Governor George E. Pataki's Executive Budget and alternative approaches to balancing New York State's 2006-2007 budget. (See pages 28, 29 and 42 through 57 for analysis of school funding issues.) Briefing book on the 2006-2007 executive budget >>

2020-11-13T15:04:36-05:00January 31st, 2006|Education, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Social Policy, State Budget, Tax & Budget, Tax Policy|
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Comments by Frank J. Mauro on the Budget Reform Constitutional Amendments

October 17, 2005. The comments below were presented by Frank Mauro at a press conference today at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, New York. These comments were based on his September 1, 2005, analysis of the budget reform constitutional amendments. The Fiscal Policy Institute, as an organization, has not taken a position in support of or in opposition to the proposal on the November 8, 2005, ballot. These are the views of Frank Mauro and not those of the Fiscal Policy Institute. The current [...]

2012-03-24T19:19:07-04:00October 17th, 2005|Blog, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, State Budget, Tax & Budget|
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Understanding and Evaluating the New York State Legislature’s Proposed Budget Process Constitutional Amendments

September 1, 2005. Frank Mauro sets out the legal parameters of the New York State budget process, describes how they would change if the amendments were adopted, analyzes the interrelated concepts upon which the S1/S2 reform package is based, and critiques that approach. Analysis >>

2012-03-24T19:15:22-04:00September 1st, 2005|Reports, Briefs and Presentations, State Budget, Tax & Budget|
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