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• Category: Blog
  • New York State’s Reserves: A User’s Guide
  • Mind the Gap: When are State Budget Gaps a Concern?
  • State Economic Update: Recession Unlikely, Tax Receipts Stable
  • May Cash Receipts Begin to Stabilize Following April Volatility
  • FPI Testifies to NYS Senate on Fines and Fees
  • Excluded Worker Fund Will Run Out of Money
  • Some Regions Lag in Excluded Worker Fund
  • Millions of Dollars Help Immigrants and Boost the Local Economy Across NYS
  • Cutting Off Federal Aid to the Unemployed: States are Slamming the Recovery Effort
  • NY’s Excluded Worker Fund is a Model for Other States – CBPP and EPI
  • FPI’s Census 2020 Hindsight in Gotham Gazette
  • FPI Testifies to Congress on Immigrant Businesses and Economic Recovery
  • Undocumented Women in NYC Particularly Hard Hit by “She-Cession”
  • A Tax Credit for Working New Yorkers
  • A Tax Credit for New York State Workers Hit Hardest by the Pandemic
  • Unemployment Compensation for Excluded Workers: $3.5 Billion Needed for 2020 and 2021
  • Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Funds: New York State Allocation by County, 2021
  • The American Rescue Plan and the New York State Budget
  • Legal Status for Undocumented Essential Workers: New York Gains
  • EITC Helps Workers, Their Families, Communities and the State
  • Public Testimony Integral to New York’s State Budget Process
  • After the Applause: Legal Status for Essential Workers
  • NYS Enhanced Services for Refugees: Now Is the Time to Expand
  • Military Coup in Myanmar Reverberates in California, Indiana, New York, and Texas
  • Arts Central to New York City’s Recovery
  • Long Island’s Immigrants are Integral for its Economic Recovery
  • Congressional COVID Relief Bill Offers New York Workers Some Needed Relief
  • Tax Revenue Keeps States Running
  • New York State’s Tenants Need Immediate Relief
  • Cuts to Employment in the State and Local Public Sector will Disproportionately Harm Women and Black Workers
  • Recognizing the 10th Anniversary of the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights
  • What Does the December Jobs Report Mean for New Yorkers?
  • The Universal Burden of Education Debt
  • NYC Labor Market Took a Hard, Sustained Hit from the Pandemic
  • The HEROES Act Should Include Undocumented Taxpayers
  • New York Helps Pave the Way: NY’s Immigrant Inclusive Policies
  • Medicaid Cuts Would Put 554,000 Essential Workers in New York at Risk
  • Congress Must Agree on COVID Relief Package in the Next Week
  • Robust Rental Assistance Needed to Protect Tenants
  • Over 40% of New Yorkers Uncounted as Feds Call for Early Halt to 2020 Census
  • Second Round of Economic Impact Payments Needed
  • Unemployed Workers Set to Lose Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation
  • Federal Funding is Essential to Health Care Coverage for New Yorkers
  • Legislators Unite for People-Centered Recovery with Statement of Principles
  • The Fiscal Policy Institute’s Three-Point Plan for Re-Building New York
  • Unemployed Workers Set to Lose Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation
  • New York’s Public Sector Workforce Threatened by Lack of Federal Aid
  • Local Government Reliance on Fines and Fees to Raise Revenues Hurts Residents and Communities
  • Refugee Resettlement Agencies Are Providing Essential Services During COVID-19
  • 1.2 Million New Yorkers Excluded from the CARES Act
  • Strengthen Medicaid and Protect Health Coverage for New Yorkers
  • Unemployment Insurance Taxes Paid for Undocumented Workers in NYS
  • New York’s Unemployment System Depends on Continued Federal Assistance
  • New York Can Do More for All New Yorkers, Regardless of Immigration Status, Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Undocumented and Unemployed
  • Fines and Fees: Raising Revenue at the Community’s Expense
  • FPI Comments on Federal Reserve Action
  • Press Release: Spotlight on New York’s Essential Workers
  • NY’s Best Prescription? An Accurate Census Count
  • Federal and State Relief Should Help All: Immigrants Should Not Be Left Behind
  • We Must Boost New York’s Fighting Chance
  • Investing in Refugees: New York Must Continue to Lead
  • FPI’s 2020 State Budget Presentations
  • New York Should Fund Programs that Support Immigrant Integration
  • New York’s 4.5 Million Immigrants Will Look to Governor Cuomo’s Leadership to Protect Them Against Federal Attacks
  • Pay Your Way into the USA: DHS’s proposed fee increases create an immigration “wealth test”
  • Only Wealthy Immigrants Need Apply: The Chilling Effects of “Public Charge”
  • “Public Charge” Chill Continues Regardless of Injunction
  • Join Us for Tax Justice NY!
  • Our Federal Tax Policy Can Strengthen NYS Communities
  • There Are About 11 Million Undocumented Immigrants in the U.S., Not Twice As Many
  • Slashing Resettlement Will Hurt Refugees and Hurt New York
  • Legislators & Advocates Call for Working Family Tax Credits to Fight Childhood Poverty
  • Press Release: Legislators, Fiscal Watchdog, Children and Social Justice Advocates and Faith Leaders Urge NY to Take Real Steps To Address Child Poverty and Provide Tax Relief to Low Income Families by Strengthening NY’s EITC and Child Tax Credit
  • Reworking New York State’s Family Tax Credits
  • $4.5 Million for a Unique NYS Program Would Help Refugees and Grow Communities
  • Media Roundup: Patriotic Millionaires and Advocates Call Upon State to Raise Revenues from the Wealthy to Support Critical Services
  • Driving Together: Benefits of Allowing All New Yorkers to Apply for Licenses
  • New York’s Pathway to Shared Prosperity: Economic and Fiscal Outlook for FY 2020
  • Automatic Voter Registration: Good for Democracy and Sound Fiscal Sense
  • Press Release: Statewide Coalition Urges State Leaders to Adopt New Hope Budget for All of New York
  • Webinar: What New York’s Community Organizations Need To Know About Public Charge
  • Every New Yorker Counts
  • Squeezing Refugees: Numbers for 2018 by State and Metro Area
  • Hispanic Representation in NY: Closing the Gap…Slowly
  • Census 2020: NYS Should Invest $40 Million to Fund Community Outreach
  • FPI Estimates Human & Economic Impacts of Public Charge Rule: 24 Million Would Experience Chilling Effects
  • Anchor Institutions: Refugee Resettlement Agencies
  • New Wave of Refugee Research: An Emerging Consensus
  • Interview: Rethinking the Property Tax Cap
  • Brief- Ranked Choice Voting: Saving Money While Improving Elections
  • Op-Ed: Don’t Jump After Janus: Why Public Workers Should Stick With Their Unions
  • Brief: Strong Public Employees’ Unions in New York: Better Pay, Benefits, and Working Conditions for All 
  • FPI joins Government and Budget Watchdogs to Call on Assembly Speaker Heastie to Allow Vote on Database of Deals and Comptroller’s Procurement Integrity Act
  • FPI Supports Calls to Protect SNAP
  • Cynthia Nixon Aims to Tax Wealthy to Pay for $7 Billion Education Plan
  • In Albany, Nixon backs tax cap, but has plan to ease override procedure
  • Legislative Briefing: Supporting New York’s Local Governments
  • Interactive Maps: SNAP Participation Rates and SNAP Retailers
  • New York’s Rent Affordability Crisis Hits Families of Color the Hardest
  • Claw-Back Tax Rally on Wall Street and Beyond
  • Wealthy Inequality Forum at Caffé Lena on March 27th
  • New York State Economic and Fiscal Outlook FY 2019
  • Join us for FPI’s FY 2019 Budget Briefing on February 13th
  • Continuing New York’s Legacy of Providing Health Care Coverage to Immigrants
  • Making Facts Matter: Immigration Messaging Webinar
  • Termination of TPS Hurts Families and The Economy
  • The Dream Act Would Boost New York’s Economy
  • Dream Act Would Boost NY Economy and Tax Revenues: Revoking DACA Hurts Both
  • House and Senate Tax Bill Will Hurt New York’s Poorest Taxpayers and Result in Many Losing Health Coverage
  • David Dyssegaard Kallick Participates in the “On Immigration” Panel Discussion
  • HOUSE TAX PLAN: BENEFIT FOR RICHEST 1% in NYS GROWS OVER TIME
  • New Data from FPI: Refugee Placement by Metro Area and Locality
  • Congestion Pricing “vs.” Millionaire’s Tax: Why Not Do Both?
  • A Constitutional Convention – A Risk NOT Worth Taking
  • Senior Budget and Policy Analyst
  • Uphill Employment Battle for New York’s Recent College Graduates
  • The Workers That Feed Our Families: Fighting for the Right to Organize
  • Fiscal Policy Institute is Expanding
  • OUR VIEW: Celebrate World Refugee Day Saturday at City Hall
  • Language Diversity and English-Speaking Ability in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse
  • Government Watchdogs Push ‘Clean Contracting’ Reform in Albany
  • Editorial: New Deportation Policy Has Human, Fiscal Cost
  • Legal Status for Dreamers Boosts NY Tax Revenue
  • Immigrant Youth Add $140 Million to NY State Tax Revenues
  • Medicaid Supports New York’s Schools and Children
  • Viewpoints: Like Google, Apple and Uber? Thank an Immigrant
  • City Plans Hearing To Crack Down on Employers Taking Advantage Of Immigrants
  • FPI Releases 2017-2018 Budget Statement
  • Tom Cat Bakery Workers Targeted By ICE March in Front of Trump Tower
  • NY Daily News: NYC jobs market booming under Cuomo — but for rest of state, it’s a different story
  • Undocumented Immigrants Make New York Great By Fueling $40 Billion In Economic Output
  • Immigration Advocacy Groups, State Officials Plan ‘Here To Stay’ Rally
  • Will Trump’s Immigration Policies Wreck The Construction Industry?
  • Upstate New York Cities Welcome Refugees and Immigrants – Some Media Stories
  • Over 80 Upper-Income New Yorkers Urge Governor Cuomo and Legislature to Extend and Expand the Millionaires’ Tax
  • March 2017 NYC Budget Presentation
  • 2017 Budget Forum, Elmira, NY
  • Economic and Tax Contributions of Undocumented Immigrants in NY
  • Policy Brief: Federal Funding Cuts Could Cause Significant Budget Woes For NYS
  • New York State Economic and Fiscal Outlook FY 2018
  • 2017 State Budget Briefing in NYC
  • Expanding Access to Driver’s Licenses: How Many Additional Cars Might Be Purchased?
  • Take-Up Rates for Driver’s Licenses
  • Immigrants Help Syracuse Grow
  • Congress’ top 2017 priority should be poverty alleviation by EITC Expansion
  • 2017 Albany Annual Budget Briefing
  • Syrian Immigrants: Doing Well, and a Strong Receiving Community for Refugees
  • Driver’s License Fees: Low, Medium, and High-Cost States
  • Berkeley Report on Impact of $15 NY Minimum Wage Released
  • Executive Actions on Immigrants Will Bring Increased NY Tax Revenue
  • FPI Commends Governor Cuomo for Advancing Middle Class Circuit Breaker—Targeted Tax Relief Tied to Income Is the Most Effective Mechanism
  • Immigrants Are More Likely to Be Business Owners …but They’re Not “Super-Entrepreneurs”
  • Interactive immigration graphic
  • Acknowledgements for Bringing Vitality to Main Street
  • NYC Median Family Income Up for First Time since Great Recession
  • FPI proposes a tax on the most expensive NYC pied-à-terre residential units
  • Hundreds of thousands of low-income families would benefit from a New York minimum wage increase
  • Parrott Presentation: Confronting New York City’s Retirement Crisis
  • Over one-third of New York City employees are paid less than $14 an hour; workers of color are twice as likely to be low-wage
  • Statement on New York City Budget Accounting Action
  • Another View on Mayor de Blasio’s FY 2015 New York City Executive Budget
  • The Significance of the TWU and UFT Labor Contracts
  • Thank you!
  • New report confirms New York’s profound income polarization
  • Statement on Governor Cuomo’s Tax Proposals
  • Statement on the Solomon/McCall Tax Reform and Fairness Commission Report
  • Almost 3.2 million New Yorkers to See a Cut in Food Assistance Beginning Today
  • The Taxpayer Costs of Low-Wage Fast Food Jobs in New York State
  • Media coverage of FPI’s research on inequality during the NYC mayoral campaign
  • While Some Improvement Crept in during 2012, NYC’s Family Incomes and Poverty Status are Still Much Worse than before the Recession
  • Children in upstate cities are the losers as poverty remains high in New York
  • Family Poverty in New York State
  • New York is Second to Massachusetts in Reducing its Uninsurance Rate Over the Past Decade
  • New Report Models Immigration Reform’s Effect on State and Local Taxes
  • Search for a new FPI executive director
  • Data for Pre-Citizen Voting Debate in City Council
  • The Gilded City of New York
  • Walmart and other large, low-wage employers will benefit financially from New York’s new Minimum Wage Reimbursement Credit.
  • The Many Problems with New York’s Proposed Minimum Wage Reimbursement Credit
  • Revised NYS and NYC unemployment rates eliminate the mid-2012 spike and clear up what had been a confused picture
  • Good news on private sector jobs front, but recovery would have been even stronger if it were not for government austerity measures.
  • Sequestration would cut human service spending in New York State
  • Op-ed: States lead the way on immigration reform
  • With 9/11 as a guide, here are five ways to consider Hurricane Sandy’s economic impact
  • NYC’s Rising Poverty and Falling Incomes Since the Great Recession
  • New poverty and income inequality data should be a call to action
  • Failure to support the Affordable Care Act and expand Medicaid in New York State would threaten 2011 progress in health care coverage
  • Health insurance coverage up in New York
  • 16 percent in the Empire State lived in poverty – two years running
  • A federal minimum wage hike would help 1.5 million New York workers and our economy
  • FPI’s immigration research cited: The White House Blog
  • State Dream Laws and Obama Dream Act Portend a shift in U.S. Immigration Policy
  • Report: Transit Fares High and Rising? Blame Bailed-Out Banks
  • Minimum wage in the news, April-May 2012
  • Advocates urge Cuomo to carry through on tax reform commission
  • Editorials: Raise the minimum wage
  • Counterbudget: Putting People First, Budget Issues that Need Attention
  • Groups call on Governor Cuomo to drop transfer language from state budget
  • Transfer Authority: The Governor and the New York State Budget
  • New York’s Leaders Join the Quest for Tax Fairness
  • Coalition calls on Governor and Legislature to close corporate tax loopholes and level the playing field for small business
  • Immigrants are the powerhouse that makes New York City work
  • Opinion: Immigrants Are the Lifeblood of New York City – Nearly half of New York City’s small businesses are owned by immigrants
  • A Balanced Approach to Closing State Deficits
  • “Fiscal analyst calls NY deficit exaggerated”
  • Proposal to Recapture High End Federal Tax Cut Windfall
  • Stiglitz calls for a second stimulus at FPI event
  • New York Not-for-Profits Fighting Governor’s Vetoes
  • Groups Call Upon Schumer and Gillibrand to Restore Medicaid and COBRA Health Insurance Funding
  • Property Tax Relief: How Does a Circuit Breaker Work?
  • Immigrants in Work Force: Study Belies Image
  • Establishing a Fair, Adequate and Economically Sensible State-Local Tax System
  • Raise Taxes to Balance the Budget
  • The Ravitch Plan
  • Revenue-raising and cost-saving options
  • Paterson’s “Budget of Necessity”
  • Who Pays? Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States
  • Advocates Decry Mid-Year Budget Cuts in Governor’s Deficit Reduction Plan
  • Property Tax Relief for New Yorkers
  • EPI updates Issue Guide on Minimum Wage
  • Federal Fiscal Relief Is Working as Intended: The Cases of New York and Virginia
  • Omnibus Consortium Works to Advance Circuit Breaker and Promote Real Property Tax Reform
  • Groups Support Governor Paterson’s Proposal to Eliminate the STAR Rebate Checks
  • Nobel Economist: Millionaires’ Tax Is Economically Preferable
  • Improving New York: Funding Public Higher Education
  • Economists to Governor: Raise High-End Income Taxes To Help Close Budget Gaps
  • Opinion in the Albany Times Union
  • Déjà Vu All Over Again – Budget Balancing in Bad Times
  • Siena New York Poll: Circuit Breaker & Gas Tax Cut Top Property Tax Cap
  • Education policy experts weigh in on tax caps
  • Materials from TREND – Tax Reform Effort of Northern Dutchess
  • Broad-based coalition unites to oppose arbitrary property tax cap
  • The economics of tax reform
  • Meeting of the New York State Commission on Property Tax Relief – Syracuse
  • Over 100 Organizations Call for the Millionaires’ Tax
  • Impact of a budget veto on New Yorkers’ vital human needs
  • Groups Call for Reform of Business Subsidy Programs
  • Statewide Coalition Joins Assemblyman Brodsky to Call for an Immediate Moratorium on the Empire Zone Program
  • The Congressional Budget Plan
  • Pre-K Investment Yields Bonuses for Children, Families, Communities and State and Federal Government
  • Taxpayers Likely to Pay the AMT in Tax Year 2007 Under Current Law, By State
  • Budget conference committee reports – 2007
  • Tax Cuts: Myths and Realities
  • President Bush’s Budget and New York
  • The Administration Again Proposes to Shift Federal Medicaid Costs to States
  • President Calls for Deep Cuts in a Wide Range of Domestic Programs
  • Distributional Analysis of the Proposed Standard Deduction for Health Insurance
  • Federal Grants to States and Localities Cut Deeply in Fiscal Year 2008 Federal Budget
  • The Fiscal Impact of House 100 Hours Agenda
  • New York State’s Dual Crises: Low Graduation Rates and Rising School Taxes
  • Preliminary Oral Comments of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on the Allocation of Carbon Dioxide Allowances Pursuant to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Cap-and-Trade Program
  • COMIDA Isn’t Spanish for Free Lunch
  • Who Pays the Individual AMT
  • Millionaires Urge Legislature to Keep Estate Tax
  • Ohio’s Investment Tax Credit and the Commerce Clause
  • Introduction to the Federal Budget Process
  • Comments by Frank J. Mauro on the Budget Reform Constitutional Amendments
  • Fair Taxes: The Key to Better Schools
  • In Manhattan, Poor Make 2¢ for Each Dollar to the Rich
  • The “Single Sales Factor” Formula for State Corporate Taxes
  • The Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation
  • Groups Urge Lawmakers to Make Industrial Development Agencies More Accountable, More Transparent and Less Corrupt
  • Organizations Join Together to Tell Governor that his Vetoes Will Hurt
  • New Jersey increases its top income tax rate
  • Rethinking Growth Strategies: How State and Local Taxes and Services Affect Economic Development
  • New York Impact Analysis: Effects of 2004 Congressional Budget Resolution
  • New York State and Local Taxes in 2002
  • The State of Our Schools: The Effect of the “Bare-Bones” Budget on New York School Districts
  • Budget Cuts vs. Tax Increases – What’s Better for the State’s Economy?
  • Rebuilding with a Spotlight on the Poor
  • Safety net urged for state’s poor
  • Jobs urged as welfare deadline looms
  • School Finance Reform Victory
  • Building a Ladder to Jobs and Higher Wages
  • Family Needs Far Exceed the Official Poverty Line
  • Hold Adelphia responsible if promises don’t pan out
  • Briefing on How Federal Spending Priorities Affect New York State
  • The Impact of Federal Spending Priorities on New York State: An Educational Briefing
  • Robin Hood in reverse
  • Federal Welfare Windfall Frees New York Money for Other Uses
  • Inside the New State Budget: A Welfare Slush Fund
  • Catholic Conference opposes TANF ‘raid’
  • Critics call plan ‘raid’
  • How Much Additional TANF Spending Can New York Afford?
  • New York's Income Tax System Among the Best for Working Families in 1999
  • Counterbudget 2000-2001: The Budget Reform Section
  • Counterbudget 2000-2001: The Revenue Section
  • Letter from Nancy L. Johnson sent individually to all 50 governors
  • McCall, agency spar over accountability
  • Balancing Revenues, Expenditures and Human Needs in the 21st Century
  • An Agenda for a Better New York: Improving New York State's Utilization of its TANF Block Grant and Related “Maintenance of Effort” Resources
  • Broad Attacks Needed on Income Gaps
  • Missed Opportunities: Assessing New York's 2000-2001 Executive Budget in Economic, Social and Fiscal Context
  • Pulling Apart in New York: Most New Yorkers Not Sharing in the Current Boom Times
  • Empire State Development: Performance of Job Development Programs
  • Bolstering and Diversifying New York City's Economy
  • New Yorkers Deserve a Fair Deal from State Government
  • Minimum Wage Fact Sheet
  • New York's Poverty Rate Remains High While the National Poverty Rate Continues to Fall
  • Why the Federal and State Governments Should Both Increase and Index Their Minimum Wages
  • State of Working New York 1999: The Illusion of Prosperity
  • Testimony before the Assembly Standing Committee on Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry and Assembly Committee on Small Business
  • Taxpayers Deserve a Fair Shake From Businesses That Receive Government Subsidies
  • Testimony before the Assembly Standing Committee on Economic Development, Job Creation, Commerce and Industry and Assembly Committee on Small Business
  • Living Standards in New York City: The Foundation of Quality of Life
  • Social Security Keeps More Than 800,000 Elderly New Yorkers Out of Poverty
  • Text of March 16,1999 letter from Nancy L. Johnson sent individually to all 50 governors
  • H.R.1060: The Distorting Subsidies Limitation Act
  • Working but Poor in New York
  • Report Shows That More Than One Million New Yorkers Are Poor Despite Work
  • Personal Income Tax Changes in New York State: Enacted 1995 Cuts and Proposed 2003 Cuts
  • A Blind Eye: Assessing New York's 1999-2000 Executive Budget in Economic, Social and Fiscal Context
  • Providing Paid Family Leave Through the Temporary Disability Insurance Program: An Attractive and Affordable Option
  • An Agenda for a Better New York: Funding a Sound Basic Education for All New York's Children
  • Practical Action is Necessary to Ensure that People Doing Necessary Jobs Receive a Living Wage
  • The Children's Budget Report
  • Is state death tax too high? No, gov exaggerates its impact
  • Minimum Wage Hikes Boosted Earnings Without Job Loss: Low-income Families Reap Benefits as Intended
  • A taxing question: Free lunch or fair deal?
  • To View Sub-Topics…
  • Corporate Tax Policy and the Right to Know: Improving State Tax Policymaking by Enhancing Legislative and Public Access
• Category: Featured on Home
  • High Earners Move Out Of New York Less Often Than Working & Middle Class And Do Not Move In Response To Tax Hikes
  • October Cash Receipts Remain Stable More Than Halfway Through Fiscal Year
  • State Fiscal Outlook Improves in Mid-Year Update to Financial Plan
  • Halfway Into Fiscal Year, Tax Receipts Remain Stable — Budget Gaps Likely to Shrink
  • FPI: August State Cash Receipts Remain Steady for Fourth Straight Month
• Category: FPI in the News
  • FPI Executive Director Nathan Gusdorf speaks with Errol Louis on NY1
  • FPI in the New York Times: New New York plan silent on need for revenue
  • Make Care Work, Fair Work
  • Why older Americans with student loan debt might want to consider refinancing
  • One Year Into Pandemic, Thousands Of Excluded Workers Are Still Begging For Relief
  • Report Finds $3.5B Needed for Aiding Excluded Workers During Pandemic
  • Denied COVID economic relief, N.Y.-based immigrant and excluded workers plan hunger strike
  • December Media
  • November Media
  • October Media
  • September Media
  • New Poll Shows Overwhelming Majority of New Yorkers Support More Equitable Taxation to Raise State Revenue
  • Buffalo Economist Fred Floss: “We are in an Impossible Situation”
  • NY Pied-À-Terre Tax Bill Amended To Address Co-Op Issues
  • Group Calls For NY ‘Mark-To-Market’ Tax To Raise $5.5B
  • Mr. Trump, suburbia needs solutions, not tweets
  • The Politics of Hiking Taxes on the Rich During the Pandemic
  • Legislators Pledge “No Cuts Without Revenue Raisers”
  • What to expect in the state’s first round of spending cuts
  • As Cuomo’s billionaire panel seeks to ‘re-imagine’ NY, critics flag concerns
  • An Heiress asks New York to Tax the Rich
  • Tax Justice NY and the Unequal State of NY in the News
  • Media Roundup: Working Families Tax Relief Act
  • Media Roundup: FPI Cited Statewide on GreenLight
  • Push for driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants intensifies at Capitol
  • With “rent burdens” on the rise, advocates urge changes to state laws
  • Reader’s View: Facts justify ‘Green Light’ driver’s licenses
  • Advocates note benefits of driver’s licenses for undocumented residents
  • Investing in census outreach pays off
  • Saratoga County opposes licenses for undocumented immigrants
  • Viewpoint: License bill is good for immigrants and for N.Y.
  • What if Trump’s war on immigrants is not just cruel and lawless but is a dead end for the economy?
  • The rent is too high! Rochester housing advocates rally for rent reforms
  • Immigrants Push for License to Drive
  • The Unclear Path For New York’s Belated Census Effort
  • Income Divide Runs Deep
  • Undocumented Immigrants Push States for Driver’s Licenses: ‘We Have to Work’
  • Rep. Espaillat endorses New York State measure for driver’s licenses regardless of immigration status
  • Living in Legal Limbo
  • $20M Enough for NY Count?
  • New Study Documents Immigrants’ Homeownership in Detroit
  • Immigration: Can Undocumented Immigrants Get Federal Public Benefits?
  • New York Budget Passes With Mansion Tax Hike In Tow
  • Letter: Licenses For Undocumented Residents Would Help
  • In Our Opinion: Cuomo Wrong to OK His Own Hike in Salary
  • Cuomo Scores Big Pay Hike in State Budget Package
  • N.Y. Had a Plan for a ‘Pied-à-Terre’ Tax on Expensive Homes. The Real Estate Industry Stopped It
  • Transferring To a Real Estate Transfer Tax
  • NY Weighs a Real Estate Tax as Pied-A-Terre Tax Hits a Roadblock
  • Early Arrival: NYS Budget’s Census Funding Disappoints Advocates
  • New York Will Dedicate $40 Million to 2020 Census Outreach in State Budget
  • Cayuga County Legislature Debates, Opposes Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants
  • NY Again Weighs Driver’s Licenses for Those in the Country Illegally
  • Damned if They Drive, Damned if They Don’t
  • Buffalo’s Refugee Agencies Petition State to Cover Federal Funding Gap Under Trump
  • NYC Congress Members Urge $40M for Census Outreach
  • Will Immigrants Find Themselves in the Driver’s Seat?
  • Poll: New York State Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Illegals Getting Drivers Licenses
  • NY Should Issue Driver’s Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants (Your Letters)
  • Alessandra Biaggi: Driver’s Licenses for Undocumented New Yorkers Can Boost Safety for All
  • Majority of NY State Voters Oppose Illegals Getting Driver’s Licenses
  • Immigrant Advocacy Groups March: ‘Drivers’ Licenses For All’
  • Dream Bigger New York Sueña más grande, Nueva York
  • Give Undocumented New Yorkers the Right to Drive
  • Reality Check: Immigrants’ Economic, Cultural Contributions Deserve Recognition, Support
  • How a $238 Million Penthouse Turned a Long-Shot Tax on the Rich Into Reality
  • Marchers Take to the Streets to Support Driver’s License Access For All
  • Driver’s Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants Getting Closer to Reality in New York
  • Cuomo, Legislature Weighing Tax on Manhattan Pieds-à-Terre
  • Groups Lobby for Changes to State Budget to Help Low- and Middle-Income People
  • Bronx DA Supports Granting Driver’s Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants
  • New York State Risks Losing Federal Funds Because of Poor Census Planning
  • Pied-a-Terre Tax Media Roundup
  • Panel Urges Albany to Allow Undocumented Immigrants Access to Driver’s Licenses
  • Renewed Push in Albany for State investment in Census Preparation
  • Advocates in Albany Urge Lawmakers to Support Refugees with NY State Budget Aid
  • Media Roundup: The New Hope Budget Goes On Tour, Stops in Saratoga Springs, Port Jervis, and Binghamton, and Calls for State Reforms
  • New Hope Budget Tour: Coalition Visits Ithaca to Build Support for a Just State Budget
  • Advocates Push to Get Illegal Immigrants NY Drivers’ Licenses
  • Driver’s Licenses for Undocumented: Benefit for Some or All?
  • Undocumented Immigrants in NYC May Soon Be Able to Get a Driver’s License
  • Support For a Pied-à-Terre Tax in NYC Grows After $240M Penthouse Sale
  • Pied-à-terre Tax Resurfaces Amid 220 Central Park South Purchase
  • Letter: Research Shows Higher Minimum Wage Good for Jobs
  • After $238M Condo Sale, Calls for Pied-à-Terre Tax Are Renewed
  • After ‘Grotesque’ $238 Million Penthouse Sale, Calls For ‘Pied-A-Terre Tax’ Intensify
  • Renewed Push for Driver’s Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants Comes Amid Political Change
  • Trump Imagines 14 Million New “Illegal Aliens”
  • Immigration Rules Change Could Mean More Kids Separated From Parents
  • There Are Benefits to Drivers’ Licenses For the Undocumented
  • Fact check: How Much Does Illegal Immigration Cost America? Not Nearly As Much As Trump Claims.
  • Each Illegal Immigrant Costs US $82G, Conservative Think Tank Claims
  • After Six Years, New York Must Finally Pass the Dream Act
  • 30th Annual People’s State of the State
  • A Sitcom About The Endangered Path to the Middle Class
  • A Holiday Gift? Driver’s Licenses For All?
  • Opinion: Public Charge and the Future of Immigration
  • As the Public Comment Period Ends, Advocacy Groups Mount One Last Push Against Trump’s ‘Public Charge’ Rule
  • New York Needs to Restore Access to Driver’s Licenses for All in 2019
  • On Census Preparations, State Lags While City, Advocacy Organizations & Business Community Move Ahead
  • As The Public Comment Period Ends, Advocacy Groups Mount One Last Push Against Trump’s Public Charge Rule
  • Immigration Proposal Goes Against Spirit of Thanksgiving
  • A Closer Look at the Tax Incentives in the Amazon Deal
  • As Chinatown Residents Panic Over Latest Trump Immigration Crackdown, Forum Offers Advice
  • Trump Administration Policy Change Could Cost New York as Many Jobs as Amazon Would Bring, Councilman Says
  • In Global Refugee Flow, Canada Finds a Surprising Solution to a Labor Shortage
  • Lawmakers React to Cuomo’s Amazon Deal
  • New York Is Giving Amazon a Helipad and New Yorkers Are Furious
  • New York Is Giving Amazon a Helipad and New Yorkers Are Furious
  • New Amazon HQ Plans Not Sitting Well With New York Lawmakers
  • Breaking Down the State’s Deal With Amazon
  • A First Look At Everything New York Will Give Amazon To Come To Queens
  • The Mystery Tax Breaks Bringing Amazon to LIC
  • Op-Ed: Protect Veterans’ Access to SNAP
  • From Refugees to Bay Area Entrepreneurs: How One Family Started Over
  • City Immigrants Fear Being a ‘Public Charge’
  • Trial on N.Y. lawsuits challenging U.S. Census citizenship question to begin
  • The Lag in Latino Political Representation
  • Making the Census Count
  • Trump Refugee Cuts Slow Resurgence of Cities Like Buffalo
  • Mayor Kenney Condemns Trump’s ‘Public Charge’ Immigration Proposal
  • Report: Public Charge Rule Change Will Have ‘Chilling Effect’ On Immigrant Community
  • The Trump Administration’s Proposed Public Charge Rule Is The Next Step in An Ongoing Immigration Crackdown
  • 24 Million People Could Be Affected By Trump Administration’s ‘Public Charge’ Immigration Policy
  • Panel Sparks Conversation on Immigration in the United States
  • For TMCO, Refugees Are Key to Diverse and Welcoming Workplace
  • Anti-Immigration Group FAIR Achieves New Political Clout in Trump’s America- Despite Being Labeled A Hate Group
  • Racial Disparities in Economic Development Spending
  • Inequities in Economic Development System Show in New Report
  • Pressure Mounts on Assembly to Tackle Stalled Anti-Corruption Measures
  • New York’s Economic Spending Shortchanges Nonwhite Communities, Report Says
  • NY Pols Unveil Bill to Establish ‘Sanctuary State’
  • The Downsides of Property Tax Caps
  • ‘Live From New York’: Saturday Night Live Lands Big Tax Breaks For Filming
  • Ethics Measures Stall in Albany Despite Corruption Convictions
  • Cuomo’s $10B Economy ‘Boost’ Results in Broken Promises
  • NY is “Ripe for Abuse,” Critics Say After Convictions In Kaloyeros Corruption Trial
  • Migrants, Manufacturing and Loyalty
  • Employment Value of Refugees
  • State Economic Development Changes? Not From Albany
  • Hiring Refugees is An Opportunity for Canadian Businesses
  • Paid Sick Leave is a Good Thing
  • Refugees Can And Should Be Good Business For Everyone
  • My Parents Came to Houston As Refugees. Now I Help Keep Their Dream Alive.
  • Atlanta-Based Amplio Recruiting Is Making Every Day World Refugee Day
  • Why Hiring Refugees Is Good for Business
  • Political Opponents Slam Cuomo on First Day of Corruption Trial of Governor’s Former Associates
  • Welcoming Immigrants: The Work of Key Makers
  • Our View: Governor’s Aversion to Reforms is Telling
  • Anti-Corruption Bills Stalled in State Assembly
  • Immigrants Voices
  • With More Corruption Trials Looming, Groups Tell NY Lawmakers to OK Contract Oversight Bills
  • Ron Deutsch, John Kaehny, on “Database of Deals” Proposal
  • Groups Urge Economic Development Reform
  • Global Forced Migration Crisis
  • Groups Urge Economic Development Reform
  • Attention Shifts to Assembly Hesitation on Accountability Bills Opposed by Cuomo
  • Here’s Yet Another Business Benefit of Hiring Refugees
  • Are Refugee Employees Good Talent Source for Manufacturers?
  • The Briefing: The Good News Trump Won’t Tell You About Immigrants
  • Results Are in From the First Major Study of US Employers’ Experiences With Refugee Hires
  • A Look at the Impact of Refugee Placements on Virginia’s Economy
  • Study: Refugees Stay In Manufacturing Jobs Longer Than Other Employees
  • Trump’s War on Refugees Harms the Economy
  • Report: Refugees Stay at Firms Longer, Improve Company Culture
  • Erie County Clerk Says He Won’t Issue Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants
  • Kearns Says Auto Bureaus Won’t Process Licenses for Undocumented Immigrants
  • Rally in Albany to Let People of All Immigration Status Get Driver’s Licenses
  • Furthering Split from Cuomo, Senate Passes Reform Bills
  • Protest Outside Congresswomen Stefanik’s Office Targets Proposed SNAP Cuts
  • Lt. Governor Candidate Williams Lays Out Fiscal Plan
  • Driver’s Licenses for All Would Better Many Lives, Including Mine
  • Congresswoman Velázquez Joins Service Providers In Rally Monday To Oppose Trump Budget Cuts
  • Nixon Opposes Cuomo’s 2% State Spending, Property Tax Caps
  • Rod Watson: Report Underscores Need to Mandate Affordable Housing
  • Will NY Let Undocumented Immigrants Get Driver’s Licenses?
  • Driver’s Licenses for Noncitizens
  • Undocumented Immigrants Could Get Driving License in New York
  • Trump Online Store Suddenly Adds Virginia to Short List of States Where it Collects Online Sales Tax
  • Impact of Cuomo’s Response to Federal Tax Changes is Uncertain
  • A Reform Free State for New York?
  • As State Budget Deadline Nears, Some Items May Fall off the Table
  • Internet Sales Tax Capture Effort Stalled in Albany
  • Human Service Workers Renew Call for Wage Funding
  • John Kaehny and Ron Deutsch: Transparency for Subsidies the State Gives to Businesses
  • Liberal Groups Call for Tax on Stock Buybacks
  • Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi Visits Woodhaven and Speaks to Residents About the Trump Tax Law
  • America’s Immigrants Are a Source of Strength, Dignity and Pride
  • My View: Let Lady Liberty’s words be our policy
  • Ron Deutsch and Jonas Shaende: Analysis of the Governor’s Executive Budget
  • What These States Learned about Wooing Companies with Big Tax Breaks
  • This Town’s Comeback May Be Squelched by Anti-Immigrant Policies
  • Trump’s $1.5 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Kicks Most of Cost Burdens to States, Cities
  • Rally Asks for Higher State Taxes on the Rich
  • Progressives Pitch Fair Share Revenue
  • Editorial: Buffalo Relies on Immigration
  • D.A.: Fear Rising Among Immigrant Witnesses to Crimes
  • Drop in Refugee Resettlement Could Affect Syracuse Economy
  • How Trump’s Immigration Plan Could Impact Buffalo
  • Do Immigrants Cost U.S. Taxpayers $300 Billion Annually?
  • The President Needs A Lesson: Compassion 101
  • Cuomo Rails at Tax Bill, 
but His Proposals are Modest
  • In Cuomo’s Budget Address, What’s Left Out Says as Much as What’s Said
  • Questions Dog Cuomo Tax Gambit
  • NY May Scrap its Income Tax for a Payroll Tax
  • Trump Is ‘Stealing’ Benefits From Elderly Immigrants He’s Expelling From the United States
  • People’s State of the State Address Held in Albany
  • Lawmakers Look ahead to State of the State
  • Advocates Propose Capturing Part of Fed’s Corporate Tax Cut
  • 29th Annual People’s State of the State
  • Cuomo Delivers Eighth State of the State Address Wednesday
  • People’s State of the State
  • As Legislative Session Starts, Sides Square off on Taxing the Rich
  • Progressives Unspool Counter-Programming to Cuomo’s Speech
  • Kentucky Advocate Says DREAM Act Would Boost Local, State Economy
  • Fiscal Policy Institute: A Third of NYers Will Pay More Under Senate Tax Bill
  • Federal Tax-Code Changes Could Force New York to Adopt Lean Spending Plan
  • Tax Bill, Deficit Could Jumble N.Y. Budget
  • Senate Tax Plan Incenses Anti-Poverty Advocates
  • Pros, Cons of Voting for a Constitutional Convention
  • Activists, Immigration Officials Push for DACA Legislation
  • Teachers Union, Progressive Groups Fight GOP Tax Plan
  • Rep. Joaquin Castro Claims TPS End Will Lead To $164B GDP Loss Over A Decade
  • Commentary: State Should Do More For Immigrants
  • Sushi (Japanese) + immigrants (Burmese) = dream (American)
  • Progressive Groups Warn Against Constitutional Convention
  • Progressives Urge “No” Vote on Constitutional Convention
  • Ron Deutsch and Susan Welber Urge No Vote on the Constitutional Convention Question
  • Ever Heard of Burmese Sushi Counters? You’ve Probably Been to One
  • GOP Plan to Scrap Tax Deduction Would Hurt New York, Lawmakers Say
  • Forum Tackles Issue of Constitutional Convention
  • Groups Concerned about Healthcare Cuts
  • Federal Budget Cuts Will Hurt Children, Official Warns
  • Tenney’s Vote for GOP Budget Draws Protest
  • Panel to Discuss State Convention
  • Cap Concerns
  • October 4, 2017: David Kallick
  • Lower Refugee Quota Called a Blow to NY
  • After Health Care Bill Fails, NY Still Faces Questions
  • Potential Trump Refugee Cutback Could Affect Buffalo
  • NY Outraged Over Startup That Wants to Replace Bodegas
  • Ellen Teller and Ron Deutsch Discuss Impact from Budget Cuts on Social Services
  • More Than 100 NY Groups Urge Congress to Reject Budget Cuts
  • Fiscal Policy Institute Raises the Alarm About Cassidy-Graham Bill
  • Report Warns Latest Health Care Bill Would Cost NY $22 Billion
  • More Than 100 New York Nonprofits Call on NYS Legislators to Reject Proposed Federal Budget Cuts
  • Millionaire’s Mass Transit Tax Plan: Is It Fair?
  • Are Immigrants Driving the Motor City?
  • Refugees Help Keep ‘Business Alive’ In Troubled US Cities
  • Refugee Entrepreneurs ‘Keep Business Alive’ in Upstate New York
  • Advocates Look to Expose “Truth” of Poverty
  • Driving While Undocumented, and Facing the Risks
  • After 40 Years ‘We Are Nuts About Nuts’ Will Close This Month
  • House GOP Targets Sanctuary Cities As Mayors Call For Inclusivity
  • New Mario Cuomo Bridge Comes With Some Questions
  • Protecting Young Immigrants Boosts NY Economy
  • ‘Dysfunctional’ Still Fits New York Legislature to a T
  • Continuation of Protection for Some Immigrants is Good News for NY Economy
  • Editorial: Lawmakers Just Walked Away From Ethics Issue
  • June 26, 2017: Good Government Advocates
  • Is Ethics Reform Dead in Albany?
  • Cuomo Raises Prospect of ‘Faso-Collins Federal Tax’
  • N.Y. Legislature Ends Session, But Plenty of Work Remains
  • Lack of Reforms at NY Capitol Called ‘Pathetic’
  • Clean Contracting Bill Gaining Support
  • Reform Groups Beg: Bolster NY’s Contracting Laws
  • Essay: NY Should Pass Driver’s License Bill For Undocumented Immigrants
  • Groups Seek Action in Albany to Counteract Trump Policies
  • Radio: Create a Cleaner State Contract Process
  • Being Poor: Meet ALICE the Working Poor
  • Another Voice: Driver’s License Should Be Available to All Immigrants
  • Statistics Show Syrian Refugees Help Host Country Economies
  • Seeking Clean State Contracting
  • Undocumented Immigrants in US Make Big Contribution in Taxes
  • We Are Moving Toward a Cashless World
  • Two Tax Code Changes That Could Greatly Benefit Working New Yorkers
  • A Gender-Wage War Cuomo Fails to Fight
  • Still Time to Enact Economic Transparency Measures
  • Report: New York Gives Corporations More In Tax Breaks Than Any Other State
  • Immigrant Business Week Underway in Philly
  • Albany Times Union: “Tracking state subsidies stymied by inconsistent transparency”
  • Capitol Pressroom: Subsidies and sluggish Upstate job growth
  • Philly Mayor Draws Incorrect Immigrant Biz Stat From Flawed Fact-Sheet
  • Investigative Post: “Job growth across upstate New York remains sluggish despite billions in economic development subsidies”
  • PA Joins Other Cities in Legal Action Against Travel Ban; Cities Join States in Effort to Halt White House Order
  • AP News: Rich New Yorkers Ask State to Raise Their Taxes
  • Times Union Opinion: Expand tax credit for low-income workers in New York
  • Trump’s Merit-Based Immigration Plan Could Mean a Smaller Buffalo
  • Billing the Benefits
  • Charita Goshay: The Golden Door Swings Both Ways
  • Letter: Immigrants, refugees greatly benefit region
  • GUEST VIEW: Refugees Good for Utica’s Economic Development
  • Viewpoints: Refugees are Powering Buffalo’s Revitalization
  • New York State Would Receive $57M Revenue Boost if Undocumented Immigrants Had Driver’s Licenses, Reports Show
  • Extending tax credit will help low-wage workers
  • Media Coverage of Immigrant Main Street Businesses Report
  • Obama Official Promotes SBA’s Bilingual Approach
  • Media Coverage on the Yacht Tax Exemption
  • Most Main Street Growth Due To Immigrant-Owned Businesses
  • 3 Cities Where Immigrants Helped Save Main Street
  • Report: Immigrant Biz Powered NYC’s Comeback
  • Many Ways to Help Immigrant Businesses, Report Says
  • Immigrant Entrepreneurs Boost ‘Main Streets’ in Nashville
  • Immigrant Entrepreneurs Prosper on Main Street
  • An Aging U.S. is Revitalized by Immigrants
  • Immigration as Political Theater
  • NY Economy Could Benefit from Obama’s New Immigration Order
  • Immigrant Numbers Have Leveled Off
  • Thanksgiving – An American Holiday that Holds Special Significance for Every Proud Immigrant
  • Experts Face Off on Economic Impact of President’s Immigration Plan
  • Experts: Obama’s Action Should Increase Tax Collections
  • Undocumented Workers, Meet the IRS
  • Detroit’s Immigrants Sustain City as Debate Consumes Washington
  • Immigrants Aren’t Taking Your Jobs, They’re Making Their Own
  • Hispanic Business Owners to Share their Experiences
  • Immigrant City
  • Which U.S. Immigrants End Up Becoming Small-Business Owners?
  • Influx of South Americans Drives Miami’s Reinvention
  • Iowa Gets $64 Million in Taxes from Immigrants in U.S. Illegally, Report Says
  • Immigrants and Detroit’s Rebirth
  • Regional Insights: Pittsburgh Could Use Some Immigrants
  • More kerfuffle over Cuomo’s tax cuts
  • Gov. Cuomo Begins His Campaign
  • Immigration Reform 2013-14: Will Comprehensive Reform Bring More Jobs for Americans?
  • Immigration Reform 2013 News: Studies Show Immigrants Help Boost the U.S. Economy, Create More American Jobs
  • Revitalizing Baltimore Through Immigration
  • Immigration Reform Isn’t Republican or Democratic — It’s Commonsense
  • How Immigration Reform Could Help Black Workers
  • Republicans Give Immigrants a Reality Check on Expecting Immigration Reform
  • Analysis: Immigrant Status Change Could Mean Millions in Tax Revenue for NY
  • White House report: immigration reform significantly boosts economy
  • White House Plays Offense: Says Immigration Reform Will Turbocharge Entrepreneurship
  • The Economic Benefits of Fixing Our Broken Immigration System
  • Analysis: Immigrant Status Change Could Mean Millions in Tax Revenue for NY
  • WNYC Radio Morning Edition-Immigration Reform & Labor Standards
  • 5 Questions for David Kallick, Immigration Expert
  • The Rise of the New Baltimoreans
  • Want Smarter Immigration Enforcement? Start at the Workplace, Not the Border
  • Immigration Reform’s ‘Surge’: The Politics Works, but Will the Policy?
  • The City Budget Should be a Force for Good
  • Gannett News Service article on “Tax-Free New York” plan cites FPI report
  • Report: Immigration Reform Will Create A More Productive Economy
  • Reflejos – on FPI’s recent immigration report
  • Fiscal Policy Institute Makes Strong Economic Argument for Reform
  • NY Suburbs Lead in Minority Population Growth
  • Reforma imigracyjna naprawdę się opłaca! (Immigration Reform Pays Off!)
  • In Opposition Of The New York State ‘DREAM Act’
  • Guest Opinion: Immigration reform will boost state
  • Next NYC Mayor facing $7.8B fiscal cliff from unions who haven’t received a raise in years
  • Inmigrantes altamente calificados son valiosos en Estados Unidos
  • Detengan el estancamiento del Dream Act
  • State Comptroller Issues Report on Costs of DREAM Act
  • Students Rally with Donut to Show Low Cost of NYS DREAM Act
  • Immigration Will Boost the California Economy
  • Conservatives Must Reject the “Poor Are Parasites” Narrative
  • New York’s minimum wage tax credit slammed as poorly designed and wasteful
  • Anti-Immigrant Fox Host Dobbs Fails On Basic Immigration Facts
  • The Latino Coalition champions for Hispanic small businesses
  • Number of millionaires in NY rebounded in 2010
  • Experts address immigration reforms
  • Garza: The economic case for immigration reform
  • Immigration Reform: Path to Citizenship, Path to Growth
  • Minimum wage helps the economy
  • Taxpayers to subsidize NY’s higher minimum wage
  • New York’s minimum wage tax credit for hiring teen workers criticized from left, right
  • Taxpayers To Shoulder Cost Of Minimum Wage Hike
  • NYPD Issues Memo Ordering Cops to Run Criminal Checks on Domestic Abuse Victims
  • State Aids Immigrants with Free Service Centers
  • Peralta Pushes for DREAM Act
  • How Immigrants Forestall Death of More Than 1 in 3 U.S. Counties
  • Governor Still Refuses to Say Whether He Will Support Funding For NYS DREAM Act in 2014 Budget
  • Job Center Helps Immigrant Workers As They Await Reform
  • “No Irish Need Apply” Couldn’t Stop Them
  • DREAMers: Undocumented Unafraid and Unapologetic
  • Urgen dar prioridad al ‘Acta del Sueño’
  • Nueva York todavía “sueña” con el Dream Act
  • Why Comprehensive Immigration Reform Should Matter to Every American
  • Immigration Coalition Sets Sights on Education Goals
  • Fiscal Policy Institute Releases DREAM Act Calculations
  • NYS Dream Act Would Cost Typical Taxpayer Less Than a Doughnut
  • LIA Among Groups Pushing for Immigration Reform
  • Wage wars: weighing an increase to minimum wage
  • US cities in decline embrace immigrants
  • Growing number of states look at minimum wage hike
  • Dream Act would provide aid to illegal immigrants
  • Main Street 2012: The Year of Living With Uncertainty
  • Baltimore says, “immigrants welcome”
  • Report finds growing income disparity in NY state
  • Analysis: What Is the economic impact of immigration reform?
  • Study points to continued income polarization in New York
  • Low-income immigrants get a hand
  • Towards an intelligent immigration policy
  • Filipina designer Josie Natori among self-made immigrant millionaires
  • Seven self-made immigrant millionaires
  • The election could affect the sale of your business
  • Immigrant jobs keep New York City running during Sandy
  • New York’s Rising Jobless Rate Poses Test for Cuomo
  • Why Hofstra is the perfect place to talk about immigration
  • The U.S. needs more immigrants to grow the economy and create jobs
  • If New York Is Adding So Many Jobs, How Come Unemployment Keeps Rising?
  • Tracking the City’s Poor
  • Income declines as property taxes soar
  • Immigrants Can’t Save U.S. Cities by Themselves
  • Top 1% are 288 times richer than you!
  • Christie Talks of a Comeback, but Jobs Data May Say Otherwise
  • Study: Colorado Immigrant Owned Businesses Generate $684 Million In Earnings
  • New York is creating jobs faster than the rest of the country, but not fast enough
  • Union Jobs Plummet in the Private Sector
  • Study: State slow to get jobs back, Growth held to low-paying areas
  • Report: New York Adds Low-Paying Jobs During ‘Tepid’ Recovery
  • New York Growth Mostly in Low Paying Jobs
  • Labor Day: Shines Light on NY Workers With Fewest Protections
  • Experts skeptical of Ritchie’s tax-cutting figures
  • Immigrant-owned firms employ 4.7 million people
  • Gillibrand, Jeffries Visit Brooklyn to Push For Higher Minimum Wage
  • How Immigrants Are Changing U.S. Businesses
  • Report: NYS gets A for effort, D for equity in education spending
  • NY’s min-wage job cost
  • Communities in Crisis: Jones, Kink and Mauro Talk Budget Cut Impact
  • Is Paid Sick Leave Good for Business?
  • Advocates Push for Paid Sick Leave in New York
  • Unemployment returns to recession level
  • Hudson Yards and New York’s love-hate relationship with Mayor Bloomberg
  • ‘Day of Action’ for workers
  • Immigrants and Small Business
  • Stockton, California, Retirees Feel Shock of Benefit Rollback
  • Young New Yorkers hurt by falling wages, high unemployment and a larger share of college costs
  • City Controller John Liu’s 1% tax relief solution lifts unfair burden for 99%
  • U.S. economy has international flavor
  • Blacks Miss Out as Jobs Rebound in New York City
  • South Florida leads nation in immigrant small business owners
  • Budget Breakdown: Watchdog Groups Say Biggest Budget Problems Easy To See, Hard To Tackle
  • Report: One in six U.S. small business owners are immigrants
  • One in six U.S. small businesses owned by immigrants
  • With Taxi Deal Blocked, the City’s Budget Is in Flux
  • City confounds predictions, gains 14K private jobs in May
  • Spending growth has slowed in state: Ranks in lower 25 for 2 budget years
  • Economy crushing NY’s middle class
  • Young NY Immigrants Welcome Obama Policy
  • ‘Soñadores’ neoyorquinos celebran
  • Immigrants Outpacing the Rest of Us in Small Business Ownership
  • Migrants Keep Small-Business Faith
  • Immigrants outpacing the general population in owning small businesses
  • Immigrants chasing their business dreams
  • Region: A third of Inland small-business owners are immigrants
  • Colorado’s immigrant businesses generate $684 million yearly, study says
  • Immigrant women more likely to own businesses in U.S. than women born in the country, new study reveals
  • Study: Immigrants own 18% of U.S. small businesses
  • Pittsburgh’s new immigrants equal brain gain
  • Advocates want Gov. Cuomo to create tax reform commission
  • Omnibus members question Cuomo’s tax plans
  • New tax cap in NY proves difficult for some towns in Ulster County, Northern Dutchess
  • Tax reformers ready to fight, criticize cap
  • Tax cap opponents shift tactics
  • Immigrant Mojo
  • NYC Workers Not Faring Well in the Recovery
  • Research Roundup: Public-Private Partnerships, Start Up Act and Federal Budget Proposals
  • Young New Yorkers powered the recovery
  • Study: Men faring better in ‘recovery’; Gender-specific jobless rates going in opposite directions
  • South Asian population continues growth in Lower Hudson Valley, and culture follows
  • New York City’s losing $13.5B in property-tax breaks
  • New York Coalition Urges Reps. to Resist GOP Budget Cut
  • Massachusetts has spent 30 years living with a property-tax cap
  • Making a Greener Economy a Fairer Economy
  • Property tax cap proves elusive
  • Cuomo’s austerity budget will kill N.Y. jobs: Why not tax the top 5% instead of slashing services?
• Category: Must Read
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  • New York’s Pandemic State Budget: Recovering and Reimagining
  • FPI’s Presentation on the Proposed Executive Budget for FY 2022
  • Generating State Revenue Essential for Post-Pandemic Recovery
  • Federal tax credits for working families need to be protected and strengthened as part of tax reform efforts
• Category: Past events
  • Property tax relief and reform
  • New York’s Unemployment Crisis and Income Polarization: Looking to State Policy for Solutions
  • Advocating Across Borders: Immigrants, Businesses & the Economy
  • The Growing Divide, the Roots of Economic Insecurity, and the Movement for Economic Fairness
  • A Call to Action: Defend the Social Safety Net
  • Long Term Liability Forum
  • MinKwon Center for Community Action Annual Gala
  • Defending Public Higher Education
  • Building the Future of New York State Transit Manufacturing: A Leadership Discussion
  • Immigrants and the Economy
  • The Effects of Federal and State Budget Actions on Local Governments
  • Property Tax Relief
  • Archived events and presentations
• Category: Policy & Research
  • Category: Economic Trends & Policy
    • Economy Shows Improvement, but Employment Needs Time to Recover
    • State and Local Employment in New York, Cut in the Pandemic, Has Been Down for a Decade
    • New York lawmakers propose tax increases on the rich. Here’s who would pay up
    • Tax opponents wonder if they still can count on Gov. Cuomo
    • Economists Push Biden On Path To Citizenship For Undocumented Immigrants
    • Biden Urged to Legalize Migrants as Part of Infrastructure Plan
    • Press Release: New Report Reveals How NY Economic Development Funds Shortchange Communities of Color
    • Progressive Groups, Government and Budget Watchdogs Call On Assembly Speaker Heastie to Allow Vote on Database of Deals and Comptroller’s Procurement Integrity Act
    • Minimum-wage bump is good for all; Even businesses in low-paying industries will benefit
    • Do Immigrants Present an Untapped Opportunity to Revitalize Communities?
    • Testimony on the Report of the NYC Council Task Force on Economic Development Tax Expenditures
    • New Census Data Show Improvement in Poverty and Incomes in New York State
    • Opening Keynote by David Dyssegaard Kallick Promises Timely and Relevant Discussion
    • Shale Researchers Release Local Government Handbook and State Policy Report Card
    • New York State Leads Nation in Income Inequality
    • Testimony: Proposed $15 Baltimore Minimum Wage
    • Nearly 1 million NYS workers will benefit from new Federal overtime rule
    • Statement on Minimum Wage Announcement
    • Upstate-Downstate Wage Differentials are Relatively Small in Low-Wage Occupations
    • $15 Minimum Wage Would Raise Earnings for 1.1 Million Immigrants
    • The Retail Sector—New York’s Biggest Low-wage Employer Needs to Provide Higher Wages
    • Proposed EITC Expansion Is No Substitute for Proposed $15 Minimum Wage
    • New York Economists Support a Statewide $15 Minimum Wage; Recent academic research shows it’s good for workers, businesses and the economy
    • Testimony at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the FY 2017 Executive Budget – Workforce Development
    • Testimony: Overall Impact of a $15 State Minimum Wage
    • A Fair Wage for Human Services Workers: Ensuring a government funded $15 per hour minimum wage for human services workers throughout NYS
    • Fact Checking the Empire Center-American Action Forum Analysis of NY’s Proposed $15 Minimum Wage: Flawed Methods Produce Erroneous Results
    • FPI-NELP Response to NYS Business Council Statement on Gov. Cuomo’s $15 Minimum Wage Proposal
    • Need for Federal Action to Address Puerto Rico’s Fiscal, Debt and Economic Crisis
    • Governor Cuomo’s Call for Raising New York’s Minimum Wage to $15 Statewide
    • The Importance of a $15 Wage Floor for New York’s Nonprofits
    • Letter to Wage Board on $15 Minimum Wage for Fast-Food Workers
    • Testimony: The Establishment of a New York City Retirement Security Board
    • Comments Provided to the New York Fast Food Wage Board
    • Testimony on Increasing the Minimum Wage in the Fast-Food Industry
    • Statement on Mayor’s Budget Commitment to Increase Wages for Low-wage Nonprofit Social Sector Workers
    • Real Living Wage NYC Educational Breakfast Forum
    • Budget Savings from a Minimum Wage Increase
    • Living Wage and Minimum Wage Efforts
    • Testimony at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the 2015-2016 Executive Budget – Human Services
    • New York’s Top 1% See All Income Gains Since Recession
    • Mayor de Blasio Can Make Lasting Change with Nonprofit Living Wages and Career Opportunities
    • The Shale Tipping Point: The Relationship of Shale Drilling to Crime, Traffic Fatalities, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Rents in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio
    • 42% of NYC residents don’t have enough income to cover the basic necessities of a Self-Sufficiency budget, according to a new report.
    • Should Nonprofits Be Mandated to Pay Living Wages?
    • Existing New York City Wage Standards
    • Expanding Opportunities and Improving City Social Services Quality through a Career Ladder Approach
    • Reform of NY’s TDI Program and Provision of Family Leave Insurance: Estimated Costs
    • Testimony to Raise the Statewide Minimum Wage and Allow Localities to Set a Higher Minimum Wage
    • Immigrants and Local Economic Growth: Realizing New York’s Full Potential
    • Testimony on Local Government Minimum Wage Authority
    • Case Studies Examine Shale Drilling’s Mixed Legacy
    • New York City Social Services Workforce
    • Testimony Presented to the New York City Council Committee on Civil Service and Labor
    • Why New York State Should Let Cities and Counties Enact Higher Local Minimum Wages
    • Testimony at the New York City Council Education and Women’s Issues Committees
    • Patterns of Income Polarization in New York City
    • The Next NYC Mayor’s Biggest Economic Challenge: Promoting Equitable Growth
    • “Tax-Free NY” is now “Start-Up NY” – Still Bad Tax Policy, Still Bad Economic Development Policy
    • Beyond Balance: Forward-Looking Budget Priorities for New York City
    • Safe Patient Handling in New York State: An Estimate of the Costs and Benefits of Statewide Implementation
    • Tax-Free New York – Bad Tax Policy, Bad Economic Development Policy
    • Nearly half of seniors, including a majority of elderly blacks and Hispanics, are on the cusp of poverty, a new Economic Policy Institute report finds.
    • $9 with indexing adds hundreds of millions of dollars more in consumer spending and more jobs
    • Raising New York’s Minimum Wage: The Economic Benefits and Demographic Impact of Increasing New York’s Minimum Wage to $8.75 per Hour
    • NYS employment and unemployment data: Is there a disconnect?
    • Mind the income gap: Rich-and-poor divide continues
    • What is the county-by-county impact of raising New York’s minimum wage to $8.50 an hour?
    • Fact vs. Fiction on Raising New York’s Minimum Wage
    • Raising New York State’s Minimum Wage
    • Increasing New York State’s Minimum Wage
    • Which workers will benefit, if the New York minimum wage is raised to $8.50 an hour?
    • N.Y. minimum wage doesn’t stretch as far as it used to
    • Raising New York’s minimum wage will boost the state economy
    • New York’s Unemployment Crisis and Income Polarization: Looking to State Policy for Solutions
    • Testimony on the Living Wage before the New York City Council Committee on Contracts
    • New group calls for boosting New York mass transit manufacturing
    • Bloomberg Administration Releases Flawed Living Wage Study
    • Building New York’s Future: Creating Jobs and Business Opportunities Through Mass Transit Investments
    • Analysis: EDC Living Wage Study Irrevocably Flawed
    • Issue Spotlight: Pensions
    • Top ten reasons a living wage makes sense for New York City
    • New Analysis of Subsidized Projects Finds Low Wages Common: City subsidies exceed $2 billion annually
    • Who’s Fudging What?
    • As Incomes Gap Widens, New York Grows Apart
    • Across the state, socioeconomic disparities need to be reduced
    • Grow Together or Pull Further Apart? Income Concentration Trends in New York
    • The Growing Budget Burden of New York’s Business Tax Expenditures
    • Background on the Economists Selected by the New York City Economic Development Corporation for Its Living Wage Study
    • True/False: Public Employees Have Too Many Benefits
    • Pay more
    • Measuring New York City’s Wage Adequacy
    • The Self Sufficiency Standard for New York
    • An Overview of Job Quality and Discretionary Economic Development Subsidies in New York City
    • Prevailing Wage for Building Service Workers in Buildings Owned or Managed by Persons Receiving City Financial Assistance
    • Oversight: The feasibility of requiring a unified economic development budget as a reporting requirement
    • Testimony at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the 2010-2011 Executive Budget Proposal – Economic Development
    • Federal minimum wage boost affects 123,000 New Yorkers – but only slightly
    • Improving Industrial Development Agencies (IDAs)
    • Maximizing the Value and Use of State Assets
    • New York has the highest poverty rate of all northern states
    • Transitional Jobs: Return on Investment Study
    • Latest IRS Data Reveal Fundamental Mismatch Between New York’s Income Distribution and Its Tax System
    • Increase in federal minimum wage doesn’t affect New Yorkers, but nearly 300,000 would be helped by state legislation
    • Restoring the Purchasing Power of New York State’s Minimum Wage
    • Community Development Done Right
    • The Role of Worker Notification in a New Economic Strategy for New York
    • Pulling Apart: Gap Between New York’s Wealthy and Poor Is Still the Widest in the Nation
    • Film Study Misinterpreted
    • What’s wrong with the CGR critique of prevailing wage requirements
    • Pay fair wages, get quality work
    • Paying good wages shields taxpayers from waste
    • Getting bang for our buck: Economic development in New York State
    • FPI Comments on NYSERDA’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) Rulemaking
    • Testimony on economic development in New York State
    • New York’s Empire Zone Program
    • Testimony on New York State’s Brownfields Cleanup and Opportunity Area Programs
    • Testimony on paid family leave
    • Statement from Frank Mauro on the New Poverty Data Released Today by the United States Census Bureau
    • New York needs a Statewide Commission on Economic Security and Poverty
    • Reforms should make IDAs more accountable
    • Strike a new deal, now: City and state must demand better pay for building staff in corporate retention pacts
    • How to fix the income gap
    • 2007-08 Executive Budget Tackles Corporate Tax Loopholes
    • New York’s 2005-2007 minimum wage increases: Good for the state’s workers, good for the economy
    • Financing of the Hudson Yards Project and the Rail Yards Agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
    • Poverty in New York Fails to Decline Despite Four Years of Economic “Growth”
    • The New York City Industrial Development Agency’s proposal to provide special additional tax breaks to all commercial construction projects in the Hudson Yards area of Manhattan
    • The Economic Development Benefits of Prevailing Wage
    • States with minimum wages above the federal level have had faster small business and retail job growth
    • Balancing Revenues, Expenditures and Human Needs in a Troubled Time
    • The Transportation Sector Workforce: Good Paying Jobs for Workers with Limited Education
    • The Effects of New York’s 2005 Increase in the Minimum Wage: A Preliminary Assessment
    • Who’s right on pension costs – the MTA or the TWU?
    • New National Report Offers Sobering Look at Trends in New York’s Early Childhood Education Workforce
    • An Open Letter on the Rebuilding Process from Civic Groups in New York on 9/11 and Katrina
    • Prospects for Information Technology Jobs in New York’s Finance Sector
    • The Problem with the Hudson Yards Property Tax Breaks
    • Companies Certified Prior to the June 2004 Sunset of a Little Known and Badly Misused Tax Break Are Back in the Money
    • Fiscal Stability for New York City
    • 11 Point Plan to Reform the Zones
    • Expenditure of Payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILOTs) in New York City
    • Testimony presented at the New York State Legislature’s Joint Budget Hearing on Economic Development and Taxes
    • West Side pyramid scheme
    • Testimony on Industrial Development Agencies
    • Proposed Financing for the New York Sports and Convention Center
    • Proposed Financing for the Hudson Yards Project East of 11th Avenue
    • Low-wage New York workers deserve a raise
    • New York State Minimum Wage Increase: Myth vs Reality
    • New York Workers Who Would Benefit from an Increase in the NYS Minimum Wage to $7.15 per Hour
    • New York Women Who Would Benefit from An Increase in the NYS Minimum Wage to $7.15 per Hour
    • Testimony before the Board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
    • Setting the Record Straight: An Increase in New York’s Minimum Wage Will Help Those Who Need It
    • Testimony on Empire Zones Program Reform
    • State Minimum Wages and Employment in Small Businesses
    • Immigrant Workers and the Minimum Wage in New York City
    • New York’s Job Shift from Higher-Paying to Lower-Paying Industries
    • Raising the Minimum Wage in New York: Helping Working Families and Improving the State’s Economy
    • New York City’s Garment Industry: A New Look?
    • Ideas for ending (or, at least, de-escalating) the economic war among the states
    • Testimony at the Legislature’s Joint Budget Hearing on Human Services
    • Taxes, Government Services and Jobs
    • Private Educational Services and Child Day Care Services in New York City: Trends and Issues
    • Private Social Services in New York City: Trends and Issues
    • An Overview of Living Wage Ordinance Initiatives
    • Pulling Apart: Poverty, Income Inequality, and Injustice in New York State
    • Key Themes and Issues in Sectoral Analysis
    • Labor Market Trends and Issues in the New York City Non-Profit Social Services Sector
    • Scorecard: Community Concerns vs. Public Authorities’ Actions
    • Entry-Level Jobs in the New York City Information Technology Labor Market
    • Administrative Support and Clerical Occupations in the New York City Corporate Services Sector: Trends and Issues
    • Minimum Wage Update
    • Sector-Based Strategies for Economic Development
    • Health Care Industry: Trends and Issues
    • Pulling Apart: New Studies Find Income Inequality in New York Worst of Any State
    • Testimony before the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees’ Joint Public Hearing on Economic Development and Taxation
    • Despite good economic times of the last several years, 2.5 million New Yorkers continue to live in poverty
    • Hardships: The Real Story of Working Families
    • Economists’ Statement on the Minimum Wage
    • Minimum wage hike would boost workers left behind by the economic expansion
    • The Self Sufficiency Standard for New York: How Much Do New Yorkers Really Need to Make Ends Meet?
    • County-by-County Self-Sufficiency Standards
    • Testimony before the Rockland County Legislature’s Public Hearing on Proposed Living Wage Law
    • De-escalating the “Economic War Among the States” and Reforming the Development Subsidy Game
    • Family Self Sufficiency Standard: Steering Committee
    • New York’s Economy, Through Another Lens
    • New York’s Minimum Wage Opportunity
    • State lawmakers should boost minimum wage
    • Boost the Minimum Wage? Yes, to raise living standards
    • Estimating Cost of Using New York’s Temporary Disability Insurance Program to Provide Partial Pay to Covered Workers During Leaves Taken Under the FMLA
    • Category: Economic Outlook
      • Personal Income Tax Revenue Exceeds Projections in Mid-Year Financial Plan
      • FPI Statement on New NYS Labor Data and Comptroller DiNapoli’s Labor Force Report
      • Fact Sheet: Black New York Workers Have Been Hit Hard By The Pandemic Statewide
      • Holiday Season Underscores the New Yorkers’ Need for Support as Pandemic Deepens Inequity
      • Pandemic Economics Demand A Diverse Response
      • New York Must Act Now to Support Excluded Workers
      • Media Roundup: The Staggering Cost of Long Island’s Opioid Crisis
      • New Report: Economic Impact of Long Island’s Opioid Crisis
      • Cuomo’s Third Term: Socially Liberal, Fiscally Conservative?
      • Does Amazon Cuomo’s ‘$9 To $1’ Sales Pitch Make Sense?
      • Amazon Plans to Split
      • New Laws Raise Minimum Wage; Cut Taxes, Business Costs
      • Brian Talks New York – Trump to NY: Drop Dead
      • PolitiFact: Cost estimates of ending worker program vary widely
      • Experts: Studies Show Refugees are Key to Stabilizing Declining Rust Belt Cities Like Syracuse
      • A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service
      • Business profits in New York State have grown much faster than wages since 2001
      • New York City’s Recovery Finally Starts Generating Wage Gains
      • Wage Standards are Key to Reversing the Erosion of Wages and Living Standards in New York City
      • Economic and fiscal impacts of proposed consolidations involving 5 postal facilities
      • Briefing on Mayor deBlasio’s Preliminary FY 2015 NYC Budget: Initial Progressive Steps, More to Come
      • New Report Examines Shale Drilling Impact
      • State of Working New York 2013: Workers Are Paying a High Price for Persistent Unemployment
      • Investing in education will build a stronger New York economy
      • Barriers to Entry: The Increasing Challenges Faced by Young Adults in the NYC Labor Market
      • Different View of NY’s Inequality Numbers
      • Briefing on Mayor Bloomberg’s Preliminary FY 2014 NYC Budget, and a Forward-Looking Budget Agenda
      • The NYC School Bus Workers’ Strike
      • Brooklyn Labor Market Review – Winter 2012
      • Deep in the trenches: understanding the dynamics of New York City’s front line workforce development staff
      • Pulling apart: The continuing impact of income polarization in New York State
      • The Applied Sciences NYC Initiative: FPI Testimony
      • Employment Patterns in NYC’s Low-Income Neighborhoods
      • State of Working New York 2012: Data Show a Disappointingly Weak Recovery
      • The Consolidated Edison Lockout: FPI Testimony
      • Helping the Helpers Will Help Us All: The Economic Situation of New York City’s Health Care and Social Assistance Sector
      • The Governor’s Proposed Budget: Continued Scarce Funding for Women, Families and Youth in a Weak Recovery
      • Briefing on Mayor Bloomberg’s Preliminary FY 2013 New York City Budget
      • Blacks and Hispanics bear the brunt of the continuing unemployment crisis – in New York and across the country
      • Sizing up the Governor’s Proposed 2012-2013 Executive Budget in its Economic Context
      • State of Working New York 2011, Part II: Great Recession takes a $31 billion toll on New Yorkers
      • Immigrants Make up Half of All Small Business Owners in NYC
      • Brooklyn Labor Market Review – Fall 2011
      • NYC Labor Market Challenges Facing Older Workers
      • Can Obama’s Plan Erase New York’s Jobs Deficit?
      • State of Working New York 2011, Part I: One in seven New Yorkers out of work two years into “recovery”
      • Scant recovery for workers in NYC: Young workers see gains, but unemployment worsens for older workers
      • Brooklyn Labor Market Review – Spring 2011
      • Budget Cuts Could Strangle Sputtering Recovery
      • New York State’s economic rebound is leading the nation
      • Briefing on Mayor Bloomberg’s Preliminary FY 2012 New York City Budget
      • What do the new Census population numbers tell us about New York’s economy?
      • Brooklyn Labor Market Review – Winter 2011
      • Misleading NYS GDP Data for 2009: Federal release distorts picture of NYS’s economy
      • Oversight: New York City Poverty 2010 – A Look at the Impact of the Recession on Communities, People, and the Administration’s Poverty Reduction Plan
      • High unemployment persists, but New York has not fared as badly as most states in the downturn
      • City Poverty Rate Jumped as the Economy Slumped
      • Statement from James Parrott on the National Bureau of Economic Research Announcement on the Business Cycle
      • Poverty on the Rise in New York and Nation in 2009: Federal Assistance Lessened Recession’s Impact
      • The Great Recession Lingers in New York City and its Neighborhoods
      • State of Working New York 2010: New York starting to see job growth but not yet recovery
      • Looking to a National Recovery
      • New York City Immigrants in the Great Recession
      • Strike a Fairer Balance In Balancing City Budget: Trim Hedge Funds, Not Services
      • New York City: Economic and Budget Challenges
      • Is the recession over in New York?
      • China trade gap displaces 140,000 New York jobs
      • The Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on New York City
      • New York’s Unemployment Crisis
      • Briefing on Mayor Bloomberg’s Preliminary FY 2011 New York City Budget
      • New York State’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook for 2010-2011
      • Analyzing the Economy of a Large, Urban County: The Case of Kings County, New York
      • Testimony on Employee Misclassification in New York’s Underground Economy – Assembly Labor Committee
      • Testimony on Employee Misclassification in New York’s Underground Economy – Senate Labor Committee
      • Job Creation Bills to be on Washington’s Agenda in 2010
      • New York City in the Great Recession: Divergent Fates by Neighborhood and Race and Ethnicity
      • Recovery Act Keeping Roughly 419,000 New Yorkers Out of Poverty
      • A Tale of Two Recessions: The State of Working New York City, 2009
      • An Innovator Takes a Fairly Conventional Approach
      • Brooklyn Labor Market Review – Fall 2009
      • Amid Talk of Recovery, Jobless Rates Reach Double Digits
      • State of Working New York 2009: Unemployment and Economic Insecurity in the Great Recession
      • Retail Wages in New York City
      • The Economic Situation of New York City’s Low- and Moderate-Income Households
      • It’s bad, but not that bad
      • NYC nonprofit sector the largest private employer: A vital part of the safety net, source of jobs for minorities
      • The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Nonprofits in the Bronx
      • We’re All in This Together: Federal, State, and Local Governments All Have a Part to Play in the Economic Recovery
      • Testimony on the 2009-2010 Executive Budget – Workforce Issues
      • Lighten weight of tax burden
      • Record Surge in NYS Unemployment in December: Lagging Benefits Expose Holes in Safety Net for Jobless New Yorkers
      • The Impact of the Economic Crisis on the Bronx Workforce
      • The Economic Crisis: Historic, and a Terrible Thing to Waste
      • The Obama Stimulus: An $825 Billion First Step
      • Low Wages, No Bargain: Retail Jobs in New York City
      • New York City Unemployment in 2009: The Emerging Crisis
      • After the Meltdown: New York’s Future
      • Testimony before the Assembly Ways and Means Committee hearing on the impact of the economic crisis on the state budget
      • Wages for young New York Workers stuck at 1979 levels: Union representation means higher wages, more benefits
      • The End of Wall Street as We Know It
      • Unions Lift Wages for New York’s Hispanics
      • Brooklyn Labor Market Review – Fall 2008
      • State of Working New York 2008: New York’s Rising Unemployment – The Other Crisis in Albany
      • The City Economy: Facing the Nation’s Woes
      • Unions Make a Big Difference for Low-Wage Workers
      • The Economic Situation of New York City’s Low- and Moderate-Income Households
      • How Will the Economic Downturn Affect New York City’s Nonprofit Sector?
      • City Could Raise Revenues and Level Playing Field for Business
      • Honoring Dr. King’s Commitment to Unions
      • Ten Reasons We Don’t Have the Economy We Thought We Had
      • The Cost of Affordable Housing Construction in New York City
      • Testimony on the 2008-2009 Executive Budget – Economic Development and Taxes
      • Stimulating the Economy
      • Could Wall Street’s Woes Be Good for New York?
      • Building Up New York, Tearing Down Job Quality: Taxpayer Impact of Worsening Employment Practices in the New York City Construction Industry
      • Wall Street’s Binge, Workers’ Hangover
      • State of Working New York 2007: Encouraging Recent Gains, but Troubling Long-Term Trends
      • Neighborhoods and the Fiscal Boom
      • Income Numbers Show a Changing City
      • Behind the Low Unemployment Rate
      • Jittery Wall Street, Calm City?
      • The Underground Economy in New York City’s Affordable Housing Construction Industry
      • Cutting Upstate Adrift Doesn’t Serve It Well
      • More Than a Link in the Food Chain: A Study of the Citywide Economic Impact of Food Manufacturing in New York City
      • New York State Workers’ Compensation: How Big Is the Coverage Shortfall?
      • One New York: An Agenda for Shared Prosperity
      • Increasing access to food stamps would boost the New York City Economy
      • State of Working New York 2006: An Uneven Recovery
      • New York’s Big Picture: A Report to the New York Film, Television and Commercial Initiative
      • The New York City Construction Labor Market
      • Rebuilding Ground Zero: Status of the World Trade Center Site Plan
      • New York City 2006 Budget and Economic Outlook
      • Pulling Apart: Gap Between New York’s Wealthiest and Poorest is Widest in the Nation
      • New York City’s Labor Market Outlook with a Special Emphasis on Immigrant Workers
      • The State of Working New York City 2005
      • Little in the Middle
      • State of Working New York 2005: New Yorker Workers Treading Water in a Tenuous Recovery
      • Who foots the bill for $6-billion rail job?
      • Taking Away the Ladder of Opportunity: Hotel Conversions and the Threat Posed to New York City’s Tourism Jobs and Economic Diversity
      • The Tentative Recovery is Still a Long Way from Restoring Jobs, Wages and Incomes to Pre-Recession Levels for New York City’s Low- and Moderate-Income Households
      • Immigrants and the New York City Labor Force
      • Keeping New York’s Transit System Safe and On-Track for the Future: The MTA Operating and Capital Budgets
      • State of Working New York 2004: Recovery Yet to Arrive for Many New York Workers and Their Families
      • How Will the Proposed West Side Stadium Complex Impact Our City?
      • Building Jobs: A Blueprint for the “New” New York
      • New York is outpacing the nation in job growth but …
      • Revitalizing the Cities of Upstate New York
      • State of Working New York 2003: Unbalanced Regional Economies through Expansion and Recession
      • Revitalize New York By Putting People to Work: A Jobs-Based Strategy for Economic Diversification and High-Road Growth
      • Security Guards & Building Services Occupations in New York City: Trends and Issues
      • The Construction Labor Market in New York City: Trends and Issues
      • New York City’s Unemployment Crisis and the Need for an Emergency Job Creation Program
      • New York City’s Economy and the Situation of Low- and Moderate-Income Households
      • Revitalize New York by Putting People to Work: A Jobs-Based Strategy for Economic Diversification and High-Road Growth
      • Testimony at the Legislature’s Joint Budget Hearing on Taxes and Economic Development
      • Meeting New York City’s Fiscal and Economic Challenges in 2003
      • Time to get rid of the LMDC
      • Management and Accountability Issues Pertaining to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s New York City Transit Operations
      • Tale of Two Recessions: The Current Slowdown in New York City Compared to the Early 1990s
      • Why Did New York Workers Lose Ground in the 1990s?
      • The Building Service Industry and Displaced Building Service Workers
      • Keeping Mass Transit on Track
      • State of Working New York 2002: A Weakened Economy
      • Learning from the ’90s: How Poor Public Choices Contributed to Income Erosion in New York City
      • Labor Market Trends and Issues in the New York City Securities Industry
      • New York City: The Economic and Fiscal Aftershocks of September 11th
      • Sectoral Approaches to Economic Development Research in New York City
      • Immigrant Workers Displaced by the September 11th World Trade Center Attacks
      • The Labor Community Advocacy Network (LCAN) to Rebuild New York
      • The Employment Impact of the September 11 World Trade Center Attacks: Updated Estimates based on the Benchmarked Employment Data
      • An Exploration of the City’s Role in Lower Manhattan Redevelopment
      • Do Tax Increases in New York City Cause a Loss of Jobs?
      • Economic Impact of the September 11 Terrorist Attacks and Strategies for Economic Rebirth and Resurgence
      • Preliminary Analysis: Do Tax Increases in New York City Cause a Loss of Jobs?
      • World Trade Center Job Impacts Take a Heavy Toll on Low-Wage Workers
      • Economic Impact of the September 11 World Trade Center Attack
      • State of Working New York 2001: Working Harder, Growing Apart
      • New York Stock Exchange Subsidy Deal
      • State of Working New York 2000: Still Waiting for Prosperity
      • Government Subsidies, Living Wages and the Building Service Industry
      • Housing Affordability in Westchester County
    • Category: Labor Market & Workforce
      • New York’s Essential Workers Overlooked, Underpaid, and Indispensable
      • Press Release: Fair Pay for Farm Workers is Affordable
      • Report: Farm Workers’ Overtime Pay Is Affordable and Long Overdue
      • Watchdog Groups Call for More Transparency to Economic Development
      • Watchdog Groups Call for the Governor and Legislature to Pass in the Budget a “Database of Deals” Making Business Subsidies Transparent
      • Report: “Undervalued and Underpaid: How New York State Shortchanges Nonprofit Human Services Providers and Their Workers”
    • Category: Migration
      • Latest Census Data Confirms New York Losing Residents to Neighboring States with Lower Housing Costs
      • Domestic Workers in New York: By the Numbers
      • Excluded Worker Fund Will Benefit 290,000 Undocumented New Yorkers and Boost Local Economies
      • “Legislature Supports $2.1 Billion in Aid to Excluded Workers; Report Shows $3.5 is Needed”
      • Concrete Gains for New Yorkers from Federal Immigration Proposal
      • Methodology for Public Charge Estimates
      • Refugees Help Revitalize and Strengthen New York Vital to Economic Growth in Areas that Need it Most
      • Event: David Dyssegaard Kallick Will Present in “The Immigration and Deportation Crisis” at Hofstra University
      • Refugees as Employees: Good Retention, Strong Recruitment
      • Immigrants Are Part of Our Economic Growth
      • Immigrants in the 13th Congressional District
      • David Dyssegaard Kallick Participates in Newsmakers Panel on Stakes for New Yorkers in the 2017 City Elections
      • Analysis of Refugee Groups Provides Evidence of High Levels of Integration Across Indicators
      • Keeping DREAMers Out of College: Missouri Makes a Costly Mistake
      • FPI Testimony in US Senate on Immigration
      • Full Implementation of Obama’s Immigration Executive Actions Would Bring $82 Million in Tax Revenues to New York
      • New Americans on Long Island: A Vital Fifth of the Economy
      • Immigrant “Main Street” Business Owners Playing an Outsized Role
      • President’s Immigration Action Expected to Benefit Economy
      • Immigration Reform Would Improve Economic Productivity
      • NYS DREAM Legislation: A Strong Return on Investment
      • Immigrant Small Business Owners: A Significant and Growing Part of the Economy
      • Testimony on the importance of libraries to integrating immigrants
      • The New York State DREAM Act: A preliminary estimate of costs and benefits
      • Testimony on “DREAM Act” Legislation
      • New Americans on Long Island: A Vital Sixth of the Economy
      • Immigration’s Impacts on the Long Island Economy
      • The Changing Profile of Long Island’s Economy: How U.S.-born workers have fared as immigration has grown
      • Testimony by David Dyssegaard Kallick: The relationship between immigration and economic growth
      • Across the Spectrum: The Wide Range of Jobs Immigrants Do
      • Immigrants in New York City: Economic Profile by Country of Origin
      • New York’s Regional Economies: The Hudson Valley
      • New York’s Regional Economies: Long Island
      • Immigrants and the Economy
      • Immigration Facts for Binghamton, New York
      • Working for a Better Life – A Profile of Immigrants in the New York State Economy
  • Category: Social Policy
    • FPI Holds Webinar with Hunger Solutions New York About SNAP and the 2018 Farm Bill
    • NYS Can Help Low-income Working Families with Children by Increasing its Earned Income Tax Credit
    • Testimony at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the 2014-2015 Executive Budget Proposal – Human Services
    • Testimony at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the 2013-2014 Executive Budget Proposal – Human Services
    • Testimony at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the 2012-2013 Executive Budget Proposal – Human Services
    • Comments on USDA’s proposed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) regulations
    • Testimony at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the 2011-2012 Executive Budget Proposal – Human Services
    • Testimony at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the 2010-2011 Executive Budget Proposal – Human Services
    • Testimony on the 2008-2009 Executive Budget – Human Services
    • Testimony on the 2007-2008 Executive Budget – Human Services
    • The Implementation and Effectiveness of New York’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program
    • The Effect of Welfare Reform in NYS
    • Testimony presented at the New York State Legislature’s Joint Budget Hearing on Human Services
    • The Impact of the 2004-2005 Executive Budget on Needy New Yorkers
    • Testimony before the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees’ Joint Public Hearing on Human Services
    • Testimony of Frank Mauro to the President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security
    • Testimony of FPI Senior Economist Moshe Adler to the President’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security
    • Proposed TANF Regulations
    • Category: Education
      • The True Cost of Tuition Hikes on SUNY & CUNY Students
      • Student Loan Debt Shortchanges Us All
      • The Push for So Called “Free College”
      • New York’s Public Colleges: An Engine for Economic Mobility
      • Comparison of the Executive, Assembly, and Senate Education Proposals FY 2015-2016
      • Policy Brief: Schools and Poverty
      • Policy Brief: Education Tax Credit
      • New York’s Underinvestment in Public Higher Education
      • Will Education Funding Promises be Broken?
      • The advantages of a career pathways job training program
      • Balancing New York State’s 2006-2007 Budget in an Economically Sensible Manner
      • Funding a Sound Basic Education for All New York’s Children
      • Simulations of the fiscal impact of the Schools for New York’s Future Act
      • Balancing New York State’s 2005-2006 Budget in an Economically Sensible Manner
      • Calculating the Cost of a Sound Basic Education
      • Early Investment in Kids = Huge Payoff to Taxpayers
      • No Funding, No Fairness: The State of Our Schools in 2004
      • Is Governor Pataki really using the Standard & Poor’s study as the basis for his proposed Sound Basic Education Plan?
      • The Southern Tier and School Finance Reform
      • Schools, Taxes and the New York Economy
      • The State of Our Schools Part 2: The Combined Effect of the “Bare Bones” Budget and the Governor’s Proposed State Aid Freeze
      • Impact of the 2001-2002 Bare Bones Budget on School Districts, County by County
    • Category: Healthcare
      • Workforce Report: Labor Shortage Mitigation in New York’s Home Care Sector
      • Domestic Workers are Essential Workers: By the Numbers in New York
      • Cassidy-Graham Bill Would Deeply Cut Health Coverage Funding for New York
      • Working Families and Economic Security in New York: How Effectively Do Work Supports Bridge the Gaps?
      • Extending the State Fiscal Relief Provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
      • Fed Directive Threatens to Cut Funds for New York Children’s Health Coverag
      • Is America becoming a lottery society?
      • The Health Care and Social Costs of the Uninsured in New York State
      • Expand, don’t restrict, health insurance for kids
      • How to insure the uninsured
      • Like hospitals, insurance system is also in crisis
      • New York Makes Real Progress on Health Care Coverage
      • Escalating Prescription Drug Costs
      • FPI Comments: Proposed Regulations, Medicare Prescription Drug Program
      • Escalating Prescription Drug Costs – The Reality and Options for Reform
      • Expand Programs Used to Determine Telephone Lifeline Eligibility
      • Impossible Choices: Food and Housing or Prescription Drugs?
    • Category: Housing
      • Housing Costs, Not Taxes, Drive Migration out of New York
      • FPI’s New Report Highlights the Unequal State of New York
      • Report: Nearly Half of New York Renting Families Are Rent-Burdened
      • Press Release: Families Lack Affordable Housing Statewide, Rent burdens leave families and communities without a firm foundation
    • Category: Transit
  • Category: Tax & Budget
    • Memo of Support: S.537/A.2533 (EITC)
    • Testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Budget and Tax Reform
    • Category: City Budget
      • Breaking Down the Fiscal Impact of City Aid to Migrants
      • Low Expectations: Understanding the NYC Budget Gap
      • The Cost of New Property Tax Breaks for Local Government
      • Local Governments Across New York State Must Re‐examine Fine and Fee Revenue
      • New York State Fines and Fees Revenue Lacks Transparency, Obscures Economic Harms
      • Fact Sheet: State and Local Government Employment Has Been Largely Static, With Full-Time Jobs Eliminated in Critical Areas
      • The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021: New York’s Share of the Coronavirus Fiscal Recovery Fund
      • Heights of Privilege
      • New York State Economic and Fiscal Outlook FY 2017
      • Testimony at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the FY 2017 Executive Budget – Taxes
      • Addressing the Unintended Consequences of the Property Tax Cap
      • Summary of Selected Tax Provisions in 2015-2016 State Budget
      • Comparison of the Executive, Assembly, and Senate Property Tax Relief Proposals FY 2015-2016
      • Policy Brief: Property Tax Relief (Circuit Breaker)
      • A missed opportunity: Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget needs to firmly invest in the Empire State
      • New York State Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2015-2016
      • Testimony at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the 2015-2016 Executive Budget – Taxes
      • Preliminary Analysis: Budget Takes One Step Forward and Two Steps Back
      • New Analysis Confirms Low- and Middle-Income New York Taxpayers Pay Higher Tax Rate than the Richest New Yorkers
      • New York City Taxes Ripe for Reform
      • New York State Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2014-2015
      • Comparison of Final 2014-2015 NYS Revenue Bill to earlier Executive, Assembly and Senate Budget Proposals
      • Tax Foundation: 2014 State Business Climate Rankings
      • 2014-2015 New York State Budget Tax Brief
      • Testimony at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the 2014-2015 Executive Budget – Taxes
      • Statement on Governor Cuomo’s Proposed 2014-2015 Budget
      • Examining the Final Report of the Pataki/McCall Commission
      • Tax Reformers Urge Governor and Legislature to Take the Politics out of the Tax Debate—And Give the Public a Voice!
      • FPI Testimony at Senate Hearing Urges Balanced Approach to Tax Reform
      • Testimony on the 2012-2013 Executive Budget
      • Governor Cuomo’s Fiscal Policies: How Will New York’s Economy Be Affected?
      • Proposed New York property tax cap is much more restrictive than the Massachusetts cap after which it is supposedly modeled
      • Proposed Cap Does Not Address New York’s Property Tax “Problem.”
      • Incorrect diagnosis of New York’s property tax “problem” will lead to a remedy that is likely to do more harm than good
      • Short Term Property Tax Relief and Long Term Tax Reform: An Omnibus Approach
      • New York Shouldn’t Look to Massachusetts as a Model for Property Tax Reform
      • Exploring progressive changes to New York State’s personal income tax system
      • Major education organizations release analysis showing 64 percent of school districts face cuts in excess of $15,000 per classroom
      • School Finance On Long Island: An Analysis of State and Local Funding Patterns
      • New York State Commission on Property Tax Relief
      • Short Term Tax Relief and Long Term Tax Reform: An Omnibus Bill Approach
      • Testimony on Proposed Legislation Addressing Real Property Taxation Issues
      • 2008 Conference on State Taxation
      • The 2008-2009 Enacted Budget and the Property Tax Commission
      • State must work to fix property tax problem
      • The Role of Property Taxes in New York’s State-Local Tax System
      • Setting the Context for Commission Deliberations
      • Property Taxes in New York: A State Problem Calling for a State Solution
      • Archive: Property tax policy in the news
      • What to Know Before Analyzing the State Budget
      • New York State’s Economic and Budget Outlook for 2008-2009
      • Testimony of Frank Mauro before the NYS Division of the Budget Public Hearing on Property Taxes
      • Testimony of Frank Mauro before the NYS Assembly Standing Committee on Real Property Taxation
      • Property Taxes on Long Island: Zeroing in on the Problems and Solutions
      • State needs to address the upstate tax burden
      • How to Reduce the Pressure on the Property Tax and Ease the Fiscal Burden on Struggling Local Governments
      • State Policies and Their Impact on Local Property Tax Rates, with a Critique of the STAR Program
      • A Giveaway to Landlords
    • Category: Financial Plans & Cash Reports
      • July Cash Receipts Remain Steady for Third Straight Month
      • June Cash Receipts Continue to Stabilize Following April Volatility
      • Fiscal Year 2024 Enacted Budget Financial Plan Analysis
      • November Cash Basis Report shows higher than expected Personal Income Tax receipts
      • October Cash Basis Report shows higher than expected Personal Income Tax receipts
    • Category: State Budget
      • Exempting Suburbs from Payroll Mobility Tax Would Cost MTA $200 Million
      • 7 Fiscal Policy Recommendations as the Budget Approaches
      • Overview of Fiscal Year 2024 Executive vs Legislative Budget Proposals
      • Tax Policy Brief: Estimating Revenue from a More Progressive Income Tax
      • FPI Annual Budget Briefing
      • Tax Policy Brief: Revenue Impact of Higher State Taxes on Capital Gains
      • State Corporate Tax Cut Would Cost New York $1.2 Billion in Annual Revenue
      • Ron Deutsch and John Kaehny – What They Want to See in the Final Budget Proposal
      • NYS Tax Reform for Fiscal 2019 – Let’s Take Our Time and Get It Right
      • Testimony at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the FY 2018 Executive Budget – Taxes
      • Testimony: NYC School Bus Industry in the Aftermath of the Removal of Employee Protection Provisions from Contracts
      • Testimony at the Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the 2013-2014 Executive Budget – Taxes
      • Testimony at the New York City Council Committee on Finance Hearing on the FY 2012 Executive Budget
      • Oversight: An Examination of the November Financial Plan
      • The Mayor’s Executive Budget Proposal
      • Testimony on Governor Paterson’s Proposed 2009-2010 Deficit Reduction Plan
      • Testimony on Governor Paterson’s Proposed 2009-2010 Deficit Reduction Plan
      • Outsourcing Public Services to the Private Sector
      • Testimony on MTA Financing
      • Testimony on the 2007-2008 Executive Budget
      • Comments on the New York City Charter Revision Commission’s preliminary recommendations on “public reporting and data access”
      • Comments on the New York City Charter Revision Commission’s preliminary recommendations on “fiscal stability”
    • Category: Tax Policy
      • Brief: New York State’s Continuing Tax Reform: governor’s unincorporated business income tax proposal
• Category: Type
  • Category: Fact Sheets
    • Taxes & Migration Fact Sheets
    • Fact vs Fiction: The Truth About New York’s Corporate Tax
    • Fact Sheet: New York State Must Invest in Not‐for‐Profit Service Providers to Protect New Yorkers and Advance Equity
    • Factsheet: Expiration of CARES Act Unemployment Benefits Will Harm New Yorkers and the Economy
    • New York State Unemployment Fact Sheet for June
    • NYS Unemployment Factsheet for April
    • 2019 Past Events Below
    • 2018 State Budget Briefing in NYC
    • What’s Going On In Your District? The Fiscal Policy Institute’s Congressional District Fact Sheets Are Here!
    • 2018 FPI State Budget Briefing in Albany
    • Briefing on Mayor de Blasio’s FY 2018 Preliminary NYC Budget
    • 2016 FPI Annual Breakfast in NYC
    • 2016 FPI Awards Celebration in Albany
    • Briefing on Mayor de Blasio’s FY 2017 Preliminary NYC Budget
    • 2016 State Budget Briefing in NYC
    • 2016 Annual Budget Briefing in Albany
    • Briefing on the Mayor’s Preliminary 2016 NYC Budget
    • 2015 State Budget Briefing in NYC
    • 2015-2016 Annual Budget Briefing in Albany
    • Local Fiscal Stress: State Austerity Policy and Creative Local Response
    • Events Honoring Frank J. Mauro
    • 2014-2015 Annual Budget Briefing in Albany
    • 2014-2015 Annual State Budget Briefing in NYC
    • Briefing on the Mayor’s Preliminary 2015 NYC Budget
    • JobsFirstNYC Community-Based Organization Meeting
    • Barriers to Entry: The Increasing Challenges Faced by Young Adults in the New York City Labor Market
    • Immigration Reform Forum in Patchogue
    • A Better Choice Budget for New York State
    • Managing shifting risks: combatting a shrinking safety net with financial empowerment
    • Municipal Art Society Summit for New York City
    • Measuring Poverty in NYC: Why it Matters
    • Annual conference on local government – Sponsored by Hudson Valley Pattern for Progress
    • Outlook for the Economy of New York State Rural Areas
    • Demographic and economic trends affecting the nation’s long term economic outlook
    • New Americans on Long Island: A Vital Sixth of the Economy
    • The proposed New York City budget and its impact on low-income New Yorkers
    • The impact of the New York State budget on local governments
    • Training on Immigration and the Economy
    • What Makes You American?
    • For older events…
  • Category: Letters
    • Memo of Support: Budget Equity Act
    • Memo of Support: The Billionaire Mark-to-Market Tax Act
    • What’s the future for fiscal federalism in New York?
    • Instead of a New York City property tax cap, why not reform?
    • Extend Tax Credits to the Poor
    • Op-ed: De Blasio’s welfare reform correction: Critics who claim we’re sliding back to the bad old are blind to reality
    • De Blasio Pulls Off Deft Budget-Balancing Parlay
    • Arizona Law on Immigration Spooks Business Leaders-FPI in Huffington Post
    • Insulting a Poem, and our Heritage (A Daily News Op-Ed)
    • For True Immigration Reform, Hire Labor Inspectors, Not Border Guards (A Newsday Op-Ed)
    • Social Security and Medicare programs speak to American values
    • New York state keeps its welfare promise – sort of
    • Fairer taxes, more jobs: Gov. Cuomo needs to look out for the unemployed
    • Budget Busters
    • FPI responds to the Partnership report: Can New York Depend on a “Millionaire’s Tax” to Solve the Budget Crisis?
    • Make Wall Street Pay
    • Fiscal Reality: Real Solutions for New York’s Budget Crisis
    • Wall St. Wealthy Must Do Part: Budget Cuts Alone Won’t Solve State’s Problems
    • Fiscal Reality: Practical options for New York’s budget
    • Stingy on Stimulants
    • Potential efficiencies in City operations
    • Look to Wall Street for help
    • How to Balance the State Budget
    • They’re a part of the Island: Immigrants pay taxes and otherwise contribute to our community
    • New Jersey town offers immigration insights
    • Family’s experiment with welfare grant shows need for a boost in funding
    • Immigrants boosting N.Y. middle class
    • Congressmen must explain cuts in critical programs
    • Congressmen must explain cuts in critical programs
    • Immigration reform: Law should direct families toward upstate cities
    • Immigration reform: Law should direct families toward upstate cities
    • Poor’s nutritional needs not being met
    • Freelancers Inc.
    • Many in county use food stamps
    • Nolan had wrong idea about Resolution 99
    • Get one return, reap tax dollars
    • Time to trim pensions of city workers?
    • House GOP Tax Cuts Ignore Crucial Funding
    • Back to the future for tax fairness
    • The Federal Income Tax Deduction for State and Local Taxes Paid
    • Employees as Regulators
    • Tax Breaks Won’t Help, Public Investment Will
    • Are Lazio’s proposed tax cuts good for New York?
    • Immigration News Coverage Archive 2007-2010
    • Immigration News Coverage Archive 2011
    • Sponsors and speakers to call for systematic reform of New York’s $2.6 billion Corporate Welfare program
    • Street Addict
  • Category: Press Releases
    • FPI Statement in Response to State Spending Freeze Directive
    • FPI: Recent Investment Firm Relocations Unlikely to Result in State Tax Loss
    • Statement on FY 2024 Budget
    • Revenue Projection: One House Budget Tax Proposals
    • FPI Statement on FY 2024 Executive Budget
    • Fiscal Policy Institute on State of the State
    • Fiscal Policy Institute on One-House Budgets 
    • FPI Testifies Before Join Legislative Budget Hearing on Taxes
    • Fiscal Policy Institute Reacts to Governor Cuomo’s State of the State
    • Ron Deutsch to Step Down as FPI’s Executive Director
    • In Solidarity
    • Reflections on the New York State Budget
    • Don’t Let the Pandemic Shortchange Our State Budget Process
    • Fiscal Policy Institute Reacts to Governor Cuomo’s State of the State Address
    • The New York State Budget Must Support All New Yorkers.
    • Press Release: Legislators & Advocates Call for Working Family Tax Credits to Fight Childhood Poverty
    • New Proposal Gives Needed Boost to New York’s Working Families
    • Fiscal Policy Institute Response to the 2019-2020 Adopted Budget
    • Fiscal Policy Institute Releases Analysis in Support of Proposed Pied-à-Terre Tax
    • Legislative Leaders Stand with Refugee Resettlement Agencies and Allies
    • FPI Supports Bill to End Company-Specific Subsidies
    • Press Release: Patriotic Millionaires and Advocates Call Upon State to Raise Revenues from the Wealthy to Support Critical Services
    • Lawmakers & Advocates to Cuomo: Where is the Census Funding Report Due in January?
    • Press Release: 30th Annual Peoples State of the State
    • Press Release: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Helps Nearly 64,000 of New York’s Low-Income Veterans Put Food on Their Tables
    • 75 New York State Organizations Call on Congress to Oppose Federal Budget Cuts to Critical Programs
    • Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez Stood Alongside Nonprofits In Opposition To President Trump And Congressional Republicans’ Harmful Cuts To The Social Safety Net
    • THE 29th PEOPLE’S “RESISTANCE” STATE OF THE STATE: The Empire State Strikes Back
    • Health Care Cuts and Higher Taxes Put Millions of New Yorkers At Risk
    • Progressive Organizations Join Together to Urge Opposition to ConCon
    • Response from Governor Cuomo, Senate Leader Flanagan and Speaker Heastie to Largest Bid-Rigging Scandal in State History: NOTHING
    • Legislature Must Act Now: Clean Contracting Reforms
    • Trump Budget Would Shift Huge SNAP Costs to New York and Put New Yorkers at Risk of Going Hungry
    • Watchdog Groups to Senate and Assembly: Don’t Come Home Without Passing Comprehensive Clean Contracting Reforms
    • FPI Policy Brief Press Statement: Time to Expand the Millionaires’ Tax
    • Press Release: Over 80 Wealthy New Yorkers Urge Governor Cuomo to Extend and Expand Millionaires’ Tax
    • Statement on Governor Cuomo’s FY 2018 Budget Proposal
    • Wealthy New Yorkers Urge Governor Cuomo and Legislature to Enact 1% Plan for New York Tax Fairness
    • Tax Breaks for Wealthy Contributors to Private or Public Schools?
    • No Permanent Extension of Business Tax Credits Without Permanent Extension of EITC/CTC Credits to Working Families
    • Property Tax Relief for Low- and Middle-Income Property New Yorkers Must Remain a Priority
    • Initial Response to Budget Agreement on Revenue Bill: No Property Tax Relief and No Reform of Tax Credits; But Wealthy Get Sales Tax Exemption on Luxury Yachts
    • Fiscal Policy Institute Names Ron Deutsch as Interim Executive Director
    • 70% of Fortune 500 Companies Use Offshore Tax Havens
    • Corning and MasterCard Paid .6% in State Taxes
    • Fiscal Policy Institute Names Frederick Floss Executive Director
    • Groups Say Tax Free-NY is Bad Economic Development Policy, Bad Tax Policy and Bad for New York.
    • Coalition and lawmakers call on Governor, Legislature to close corporate tax loopholes to level playing field for small business and restore public services
    • Fiscal Policy Institute’s Mauro to step down
    • FPI and CBPP: Ryan Budget Takes Billions out of New York
    • National tax expert calls for closing New York State Tax loopholes
    • SNAP Benefits in Paul Ryan’s Budget Plan
    • Statement from the Fiscal Policy Institute on the proposed Executive Budget 2011-2012
    • Hundreds of millions at stake for New York’s working families: Current tax debate to determine future of key work-supporting tax credits
    • New York Has the Ways and Means: How and Why Wall Street Should Give Back to Main Street
    • Statement on Governor Paterson’s call to cut state spending by $1.8 billion
    • Casualty of Chaos: The Cost of Albany’s Inaction on Jobless Benefits
    • Back on Track: Why Progressive Tax Reform Is an Essential Part of New York’s Budget Solution
    • FPI, NYFF, and Economist Robert H. Frank applaud Senator Jeffrey Klein’s efforts to restore progressivity to the income tax
    • FPI Reaction to the 2009-2010 Executive Budget
    • Bush Administration Rule Would Force Health Centers to Close
    • President’s budget reflects wrong priorities for New York
    • The Fight over Federal Appropriations: Impact on New York State
    • Food Stamp Challenge: Live on a Food Stamp Budget for a Day
    • 99 Percent of New Yorkers Lose Under Bush “Tax and Borrow” Fiscal Policies
    • Sorting Estate Tax Fact From Fiction
    • $90 million in TANF Funds Trapped in Budget Limbo
    • Roth IRA “Conversion” Gimmick May be Used to Mask the True Cost of New Tax Cut Package Nearing Adoption by Congress
    • Over $1 Billion in TANF Block Grant Funds Trapped in Budget Limbo
    • House of Representatives’ proposed FY 2007 budget plan calls for large cuts in domestic programs while increasing the federal budget deficit
    • Vulnerable New Yorkers Would Lose up to $4.4 Billion in Federal Funding under House Budget Plan
    • One Million Elderly New Yorkers Rely on Social Security for At Least Half Their Income
    • Joint Statement in support of a Better Choice approach to balancing New York State’s 2005-2006 Budget
    • Large, Profitable Corporations Not Paying Their Fair Share
    • New York Workers Lost Billions in Retirement Assets Due to Stock Market Decline
    • Balancing New York State’s 2002-2003 Budget in a Fair and Balanced Manner
    • Briefing: The Empire State Jobs Program
    • A Preliminary Analysis of the Impact of President George W. Bush’s Tax Cut Proposals on New York State
    • Poverty Amidst Plenty 2001
    • Social Security Protects 253,000 New Yorkers Under Age 40
  • Category: Reports, Briefs and Presentations
    • COVID-19 Revenue Shortfalls Threaten Increase to Fines and Fees
    • Policy Brief: Expand the Millionaires’ Tax and Address New York’s Worst-in-the-Nation Income Inequality
    • Expanding Access to Driver’s Licenses
    • Briefing on Mayor deBlasio’s Preliminary FY 2017 NYC Budget: Budgeting Cautiously amid State and Economic Uncertainty
    • Figures from New York State Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2016-2017
    • Executive Summary: New York State Economic and Fiscal Outlook FY 2017
    • Briefing on Mayor deBlasio’s Preliminary FY 2016 NYC Budget: Addressing Needs and Budgeting Cautiously as the Recovery Progresses
    • Briefing on Mayor deBlasio’s Preliminary FY 2016 NYC Budget: Addressing Needs and Budgeting Cautiously as the Recovery Progresses
    • Parrott-Brecher Debate on NYC Municipal Contracts
    • Closing the window of opportunity: the impact of the Governor’s proposed 2013-14 New York State budget on New York City’s women, youth and families
    • FPI on New York’s 2013-14 State Budget
    • New York State Economic and Fiscal Outlook 2013-2014
    • Impact of the New York City FY 2013 Executive Budget Proposal on Women, Children and Families
    • What’s happening with temporary assistance for New York State’s neediest families?
    • How much does the Tier 6 proposal reduce employee retirement benefits?
    • New York State’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook for 2012-2013
    • Reforming the New York Tax Code
    • New York City Revenue and Cost Savings Options
    • Wrenching Choices for New York City’s Working Families: Child Care Funding Slashed as Need Grows
    • A Harder Struggle, Fewer Opportunities: The Impact of the Governor’s Proposed Budget on Women, Children and Families
    • New Federal Dollars for New York: The TANF Emergency Contingency Fund in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
    • Balancing the New York State Budget 2011-2012
    • New York State’s Economic and Fiscal Outlook for 2011-2012
    • Federal Tax Policy at a Crossroads
    • Extension of the TANF Emergency Contingency Fund is Essential to Bringing More Jobs and Needed Financial Support to New York State
    • Extending the TANF Emergency Contingency Fund Would Bring More Dollars and Jobs to New York
    • The New York State Lottery: A Regressive Tax
    • Balancing the New York State Budget in an Economically Sensible Manner
    • A Better Choice for Addressing New York State’s Projected Budget Gaps
    • The TANF Emergency Contingency Fund: The Basics, and New York’s Experience with the Regular Contingency Fund
    • Balancing New York State’s 2009-2010 Budget in an Economically Sensible Manner
    • Economists’ Statement Opposing the Lazio Tax Proposal
    • The Economics of Low Income Energy Assistance in New York – No Wonder They Call Economics the “Dismal” Science
    • State Budget Experts Present Ideas on the State Budget
    • New York’s unemployment insurance system: A vital safety net for New York workers and their families during economic downturns
    • Presentation by James Parrott before the New York State Economic and Revenue Consensus Forecasting Conference
    • Difference between the President’s Budget and House Appropriations: Impact on New York State for Selected Programs
    • TANF Spending in New York
    • Testimony on the adequacy of the public assistance grant in New York State
    • The Public Cost of Privatized Medicare: How Medicare Advantage is hurting Medicare beneficiaries and other New York taxpayers
    • Stretched Too Thin: Food Stamp Benefits in New York State
    • First Things First: The President’s Budget Makes the Wrong Choices for New York
    • The President’s 2007-2008 Budget: What It Means to New Yorkers
    • Balancing New York State’s 2007-2008 Budget in an Economically Sensible Manner
    • Regulating the Financial Sector in New York: Have the Activities of the State Attorney General Been Good or Bad for the Industry?
    • A New York Perspective on Public-Private Partnerships
    • The Impact of Federal TANF Reauthorization in New York
    • Presentation by Trudi Renwick before the New York State Economic and Revenue Forecasting Conference
    • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Spending in New York
    • Understanding and Evaluating the New York State Legislature’s Proposed Budget Process Constitutional Amendments
    • The Future of Social Security: Where are We Going?
    • Privatization without Competition equals Huge Losses
    • The Path Not Taken: How New York State has Increased the Tax Burden on the Middle Class and Cut Taxes for its Highest Income Taxpayers by Over $8 Billion a Year
    • New York City’s 2005-2006 Budget Outlook
    • Social Security Keeps More than 800,000 Elderly New Yorkers Out of Poverty
    • Women’s Economic Security in New York
    • Balancing New York State’s 2004-2005 Budget in an Economically Sensible Manner
    • Combined Impact of the Federal, New York State and New York City Income Tax Changes
    • TANF and Child Care Spending in New York
    • Balancing New York State’s 2003-2004 Budget in an Economically Sensible Manner
    • The NYS and NYC Budgets
    • Assessment of the Monroe County Department of Social Services and Health Department Altreya Consulting LLC Assessment and Recommendations – Updated Report
    • Budget Alert: New York State’s 2003-2004 Budget Outlook
    • New York State’s 2003-2004 Budget Outlook
    • New York State’s 2003-2004 Budget Outlook
    • Archive – 2002 Publications
    • Partial Sanctions Have Not Led To Smaller Caseload Declines
    • The Impact of New York State’s Personal Income Tax on Low Income Working Families
    • Recommendations on the Reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program
    • Welfare Reform and Social Indicators – New York City
    • TANF Reauthorization
    • Welfare Reform and Social Indicators – County by County
    • The Impact of New York State’s Personal Income Tax on Low Income Working Families
    • Balancing Revenues, Expenditures and Human Needs in the 21st Century: Assessing New York’s 2001-2002 Executive Budget in Economic, Social and Fiscal Context
    • Strengthening Social Security and Medicare – Rhetoric and Reality in the 2000 Election
    • An Agenda for a Better New York: Modernizing New York’s Unemployment Insurance System
    • Head of Congressional welfare reform panel tells all 50 Governors it’s essential that states use their TANF resources and use them wisely
  • Category: Testimony