Tax & Budget

The Fight over Federal Appropriations: Impact on New York State

July 17, 2007. Today FPI released a new report and joined more than 30 children's, hunger, religious, social service and other advocacy organizations in calling on Congress to stand with New York families. The groups urged the state's representatives to resist pressure from the administration to cut funding for education, child care, worker training and similar programs. FPI's report, an issue of Fiscal Policy Note$, takes a look at the struggle in Congress over domestic discretionary spending, and finds that the modest increases under consideration [...]

2012-03-15T21:18:24-04:00July 17th, 2007|Press Releases, Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Tax & Budget|
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The Public Cost of Privatized Medicare: How Medicare Advantage is hurting Medicare beneficiaries and other New York taxpayers

July 6, 2007. New York's Child Health Plus expansion is being jeopardized by Medicare Advantage overpayments. How? A report from FPI and Citizen Action New York finds that a privatized Medicare plan is costing taxpayers $709 million in overpayments for New York alone - and NY beneficiaries paid $35 million in extra premiums. FPI and CANY point out that these funds would be better used to finance Governor Spitzer's plan to cover all uninsured children. Press release, full report.

2012-03-15T21:28:54-04:00July 6th, 2007|Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Tax & Budget|
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Stretched Too Thin: Food Stamp Benefits in New York State

May 16, 2007. Religious and civic leaders pledge to try the "Food Stamp Diet" - and eat on $3.50 a day - as FPI releases a new report. Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, Rev. Paul D. Rees-Rohrbacher of St. John's Lutheran Church in Albany, Ed Bloch of the Interfaith Alliance of New York State, Lynda Schuyler of Food Pantries for the Capital District and Linda Bopp of the Nutrition Consortium of New York State joined FPI senior economist Trudi [...]

2020-11-13T15:11:24-05:00May 16th, 2007|Reports, Briefs and Presentations, Social Policy, Tax & Budget|
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