Testimony on the 2007-2008 Executive Budget
February 28, 2007. Testimony presented by FPI Executive Director Frank Mauro to the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees.
First Things First: The President’s Budget Makes the Wrong Choices for New York
February 21, 2007. An analysis of the impact of the President's 2008 proposed budget on New York, released in collaboration with Citizen Action of New York, the Coalition for Human Needs and the Emergency Campaign for America's Priorities. Press release including summary table, full report.
The Administration Again Proposes to Shift Federal Medicaid Costs to States
February 14, 2007. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explains what's at stake.
President Calls for Deep Cuts in a Wide Range of Domestic Programs
February 8, 2007. The cuts would start in 2008 and grow deeper over time. Details given in this report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
The President’s 2007-2008 Budget: What It Means to New Yorkers
February 7, 2007. The budget released on February 5 by President Bush pays for massive tax cuts for the rich by cutting services and programs for the poor. The President's proposals balance the federal budget only on paper, and make it harder for New York to balance its budget. Report >>.
Distributional Analysis of the Proposed Standard Deduction for Health Insurance
February 7, 2007. The Tax Policy Center has put together detailed tables showing the various changes by income class and income percentile.
Balancing New York State’s 2007-2008 Budget in an Economically Sensible Manner
February 7, 2007. Governor Eliot Spitzer's first executive budget is the focus of FPI's seventeenth annual budget briefing: a discussion of economic and fiscal context for the budget, and an analysis of the extent to which the budget helps the state's regions grow together and strengthens and expands the middle class. Briefing book on the 2007-2008 executive budget >>
Federal Grants to States and Localities Cut Deeply in Fiscal Year 2008 Federal Budget
February 6, 2007. Iris Lav at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities explains the impact.
State needs to address the upstate tax burden
January 25, 2007. An op ed by James Parrott. Albany Times Union.
How to Reduce the Pressure on the Property Tax and Ease the Fiscal Burden on Struggling Local Governments
January 10, 2007. The four-part plan supported by FPI: implement a statewide solution to CFE; increase state's share of Medicaid and base counties' shares on ability to pay; restore commitment to revenue sharing; and eliminate the significant disparities in the STAR program. Prepared for the Center on Governmental Research conference on reforming property taxes in New York.
State Policies and Their Impact on Local Property Tax Rates, with a Critique of the STAR Program
July 7, 2006. An excerpt from FPI's 2006-2007 budget briefing book. Read the brief >>
99 Percent of New Yorkers Lose Under Bush “Tax and Borrow” Fiscal Policies
June 28, 2006. FPI's release of a new report by Citizens for Tax Justice with state-specific data.
Sorting Estate Tax Fact From Fiction
June 5, 2006. New data from the IRS shows that only 1.6% of New York estates (and only 1.2% of all estates nationally) were subject to taxation in 2004. Press release including a fact sheet from Citizens for Tax Justice.
$90 million in TANF Funds Trapped in Budget Limbo
May 24, 2006. Advocates call upon Governor to adopt legislature's bi-partisan agreement on TANF Funds. Press release below. Also see attachments: The Allocation of the New York's TANF Block Grant Funds for 2006-07 and Flexible Fund for Family Services allocations by county. Assemblymember Deborah Glick and 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 federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant funds. The groups urged the Governor [...]
New York State’s Dual Crises: Low Graduation Rates and Rising School Taxes
May 18, 2006. A new report issued by the Public Policy and Education Fund of New York with the assistance of the Fiscal Policy Institute.