Press Releases

New York Must Act Now to Support Excluded Workers

Workers and families left without support for months Read the full report: Unemployment Compensation for Excluded Workers: Helping New Yorkers, Boosting the Local Economy (Albany, NY) State unemployment benefits were expanded in significant ways for most New Yorkers who lost their jobs during the pandemic. However, tens of thousands of New York workers and their families were left adrift without federal or state assistance. The Fiscal Policy Institute’s new report shows that our state can act to create and fund a system to support these workers. [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2025-04-04T14:27:27-04:00July 30th, 2020|Economic Outlook, Migration, Press Releases|

In Solidarity

The Fiscal Policy Institute stands in solidarity with protesters voicing outrage over the recent murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, and the long history of violent abuse and killing of Black people at the hands of police in city after city, town after town, year after year. Black lives matter. Yet the history of racism built into our society actively harms Black people. We must do better for our state and our nation. In our research at the Fiscal Policy Institute, we consistently see [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:24:36-05:00June 12th, 2020|Press Releases|

Press Release: Spotlight on New York’s Essential Workers

April 8, 2020 Overlooked, Underpaid and Indispensible Read the report: https://fiscalpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Essential-Workers-Brief-Final.pdf (Albany, NY) Today the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) released a new report spotlighting New York's essential workers who are on the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the new analysis, there are 2.2 million “essential workers” in New York State. Twenty-two percent of these essential workers support their families on low incomes, with family incomes of less than 200 percent of the poverty level. Statement from David Dyssegaard Kallick, Deputy Director, Fiscal Policy Institute: “The pandemic has brought [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:24:37-05:00April 8th, 2020|Blog, Labor Market & Workforce, Press Releases|

Reflections on the New York State Budget

For Immediate Release: April 4, 2020 Media Contact: communications@fiscalpolicy.org, 518-786-3156 Reflections on the New York State Budget (Albany, NY) The process of crafting the FY 2020-2021 State Budget began with warnings of a dire budget shortfall and concluded with efforts to alleviate the fallout caused by an economy brought to a sudden standstill by a global pandemic. Throughout the budget process and the rising projections around revenue losses, FPI has called for public policies based on research and careful analysis that provide a clear path toward creating a more just and equitable state. We will continue our work in partnership [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:24:37-05:00April 3rd, 2020|Press Releases, State Budget|

Don’t Let the Pandemic Shortchange Our State Budget Process

For Immediate Release: March 31, 2020 (Albany, NY) Today the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) released a set of recommendations to safeguard New York’s budget process and ensure a just budget for all. Predictions of a budget shortfall preceded the unforeseen economic impact of the pandemic and FPI urged leadership to think beyond the continued use of the same austerity budget measures put in place year after year. Now, faced with the urgent needs of our community members, FPI urges Governor Cuomo and state leadership [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:24:37-05:00March 31st, 2020|Press Releases, State Budget|

Fiscal Policy Institute Reacts to Governor Cuomo’s State of the State Address

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 8, 2020 Media Contact: communications@fiscalpolicy.org, 518-786-3156 Fiscal Policy Institute Reacts to Governor Cuomo's State of the State Address FPI Agrees that New Yorkers Deserve Results, Not Rhetoric Statement from Ron Deutsch, Executive Director, Fiscal Policy Institute “Governor Cuomo is right that New Yorkers deserve results, not rhetoric. While our state economy booms, we continue to be short-changed by austerity budgeting. Missing from the governor’s State of the State address is clarity on closing the budget gap and meeting our state’s pressing needs. The [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:24:38-05:00January 8th, 2020|Press Releases, State Budget|

The New York State Budget Must Support All New Yorkers.

January 6, 2020 As the New York State legislative session begins with the state facing a multi-billion-dollar state budget deficit, the question is clear—what kind of New York do we want and how will we get there?  The Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) urges Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie to choose sound economic and social policies that promote growth and development for the many rather than the few so that all New Yorkers have an equal chance at opportunity. FPI knows that we can craft [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:24:38-05:00January 6th, 2020|Press Releases, State Budget|

New Report: Economic Impact of Long Island’s Opioid Crisis

The Fiscal Policy Institute’s new report “The Staggering Cost of Long Island’s Opioid Crisis” revealed the economic impact of this health crisis and how the financial burden is borne by all of us: as taxpayers, consumers, and businesses. While the devastating personal costs of addiction have always been clear, the report shows just how significant the effect has been on Long Island’s economy through lost productivity, and other costs to businesses, emergency services, libraries, and others. On Long Island, the opioid-related health crisis resulted in a [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:24:39-05:00September 5th, 2019|Economic Outlook, Economic Trends & Policy, Press Releases|

Refugees Help Revitalize and Strengthen New York Vital to Economic Growth in Areas that Need it Most

For Immediate Release: July 19, 2019 Media Contact: communications@fiscalpolicy.org, 518-786-3156 Refugees Help Revitalize and Strengthen New York Vital to Economic Growth in Areas that Need it Most July 19, 2019. (Albany, NY)- News that the Trump Administration is considering radically reducing refugee resettlement should be a jolt to New York’s political leadership. New York elected officials have shown bipartisan support for the resettlement program as being both the right thing to do and good for New York. Years of research by the Fiscal Policy Institute (FPI) shows [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:24:39-05:00July 19th, 2019|Migration, Press Releases|

Press Release: Legislators & Advocates Call for Working Family Tax Credits to Fight Childhood Poverty

Strengthening the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Care Credit Boosts New York’s Working Families PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: May 30, 2019 Contact: Dede Hill, Director of Policy, Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy (518) 879-6616 / dhill@scaany.org Pete Nabozny, The Children’s Agenda (518) 929-1264 / pete@thechildrensagenda.org Legislators & Advocates Call for Working Family Tax Credits to Fight Childhood Poverty Strengthening the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Care Credit Boosts New York’s Working Families (Albany, NY) On many levels, New York is an [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:24:39-05:00May 30th, 2019|Press Releases, Tax Policy|

Press Release: Fair Pay for Farm Workers is Affordable

For immediate release: Tuesday, May 28, 2019 Media Contact: communications@fiscalpolicy.org, 518-786-3156 The new report: "Farm Workers' Overtime Pay is Affordable and Long Overdue" New Report Shows that Fair Pay for Farm Workers is Affordable Our state can end the archaic exclusion of job protections for farm workers (Albany, NY) Today the Fiscal Policy Institute released a new report “Farm Workers’ Overtime Pay is Affordable and Long Overdue” which looks at how giving farm workers the same rights and protection as other workers, including overtime pay for long hours, [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:24:39-05:00May 28th, 2019|Labor Market & Workforce, Press Releases|

New Proposal Gives Needed Boost to New York’s Working Families

For Immediate Release: April 10, 2019 Media Contact: communications@fiscalpolicy.org, 518-786-3156 New Proposal Gives Needed Boost to New York’s Working Families (Albany, NY) New York’s Fiscal Policy Institute welcomed Senator Chuck Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s sponsorship of the Working Families Tax Relief Act- legislation that would begin to fix our tax laws to help working people with low-wage jobs make ends meet as they work to support themselves and their families. Introduced today the proposal would strengthen the highly successful Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:24:40-05:00April 10th, 2019|Press Releases|

Fiscal Policy Institute Response to the 2019-2020 Adopted Budget

Fiscal Policy Institute Response to the 2019-2020 Adopted Budget Read FPI's comprehensive overview of the NYS budget. Revenues This year’s budget raises revenues from a number of different areas, and does so through a number of well-founded approaches. The Fiscal Policy Institute supports the newly enacted luxury real estate tax, which makes property taxes more progressive. We support congestion pricing, which will raise needed revenues for the transit system while reducing traffic in Manhattan. And we support the collection of sales tax from internet marketplace [...]

Fiscal Policy Institute2024-12-18T12:24:41-05:00April 1st, 2019|Press Releases, State Budget|