House GOP Tax Cuts Ignore Crucial Funding
May 4, 2006. A letter to the editor by FPI Senior Economist Trudi Renwick, commenting on a Times Union editorial (April 19, 2006) on tax cuts being considered by Congress.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Who Pays the Individual AMT
March 22, 2006. State by state estimates from the Citizens for Tax Justice.
Millionaires Urge Legislature to Keep Estate Tax
March 20, 2006. Forty-six wealthy New Yorkers placed a full-page ad in the March 20, 2006, Legislative Gazette calling for New York State to keep its estate tax. In their open letter to the members of the State Legislature, the millionaires said that keeping the estate tax is essential to New York having a fair tax system.
A New York Perspective on Public-Private Partnerships
March 8, 2006. A presentation prepared for "Partnerships for New York - Innovative Transportation Financing and Contracting Strategies: Opportunities for New York State," a NYS Department of Transportation symposium. More: press release from DOT.
Presentation by Trudi Renwick before the New York State Economic and Revenue Forecasting Conference
March 1, 2006. Presentation >>
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 [...]
New York City 2006 Budget and Economic Outlook
February 9, 2006. Presentation by FPI Deputy Director and Chief Economist James Parrott. Presentation >>
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 >>
Introduction to the Federal Budget Process
January 17, 2006. Policy basics from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - first written in 2003, and updated regularly.
Back to the future for tax fairness
January 2006. The State Legislature must act to provide New York with new revenues - and more equity. An op ed by Frank Mauro, The Clarion.
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 [...]
Fair Taxes: The Key to Better Schools
Fall 2005. A training curriculum prepared by the Public Policy and Education Fund of New York and the Fiscal Policy Institute.
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 >>