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December 15, 2004. Testimony before
the NYC Council Committee on Finance regarding the Proposed Financing for the Hudson Yards
Project East of 11th Avenue (MSWORD) November 29, 2004.
Low-wage New York workers deserve a
raise. A letter to the editor by Trudi Renwick, Albany Times Union.
November 18, 2004. Social Security, the
Nation's Most Effective Safety Net Program, Keeps More than 800,000 Elderly New Yorkers
Out of Poverty. (PDF)
November 18, 2004. New York Workers Who
Would Benefit from an Increase in the NYS Minimum Wage to $7.15 per Hour,
by County. (PDF)
November 18, 2004.
New York State Minimum
Wage Increase: Myth vs Reality. (PDF)
November 17, 2004. Calculating the Cost of a
Sound Basic Education. (PDF) A supplemental affidavit submitted by FPI to the three
court-appointed referees in the landmark school funding adequacy case (Campaign for Fiscal
Equity vs. New York State). This supplemental affidavit and an earlier
Oct. 26, 2004 affidavit (PDF) were prepared in
response to questions from the referees regarding regional cost indices, the state
government's "cost effectiveness" filter and weightings for poverty and other
special needs.
November 12, 2004.
New York Women Who Would Benefit
from An Increase in the NYS Minimum Wage to $7.15 per Hour, by County. (PDF)
November 12, 2004. Fact Sheet on NY
Women's Economic Security (PDF) and Presentation on
Women's Economic Security in New York. (Powerpoint) These materials were prepared for
the Policy Summit for Women Elected to New York State's County and City Governments
sponsored by the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership at the University of
Rochester.
October 19, 2004. Exceptional
Returns: Economic, Fiscal, and Social Benefits of Investment in Early Childhood
Development (PDF) finds that increased federal and state investments in comprehensive
high quality early childhood development programs would more than pay for themselves
– generating more than $2 in returns to taxpayers for every $1 invested.
Press release in HTML.
October 4, 2004. FPI Comments on Medicare Prescription
Drug program proposed regulations. (MS Word)
September 29, 2004.
FPI's
testimony presented to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
September 22, 2004. Large, Profitable Corporations
Not Paying Their Fair Share. A new study from FPI and Citizens for
Tax Justice showing
that 82 of America's largest and most profitable corporations, including twelve New
York-based corporations and many other corporations that generate a substantial portion of
their profits in New York State, paid no federal income tax at all in at least one year
during the first three years of the George W. Bush administration, a period when federal
corporate tax collections fell to their lowest sustained level in six decades. (PDF)
September 22, 2004.
Preliminary
Analysis of 2004-2005 Budget --- After Vetoes (PDF) and other
materials from press conference on the line item budget vetoes
he issued by Governor Pataki on August 20, 2004:
Labor Day 2004. Recovery Yet to Arrive for Many New Yorkers and Their Families. (in HTML without tables and graphs OR
full version in PDF with all tables and graphs).
July 19, 2004. Setting the Record Straight: An
Increase in New York's Minimum Wage Will Help Those Who Need It. (PDF)
June 3, 2004. Testimony before the NYC
Council Economic Development Committee, "How Will the Proposed West Side Stadium
Complex Impact Our City?" (MSWORD)
April 21, 2004. State Minimum Wages and Employment in Small
Businesses. Full report
in PDF or highlights in HTML.
April 1, 2004.
The Southern Tier and School Finance
Reform: Area school districts among the state's neediest. The overwhelming majority of
the 68 school districts in the 9-county Binghamton-Ithaca- Elmira-Corning area would
benefit from reforming NYS's school funding system. (PDF)
March 25, 2004. Immigrant Workers and
the Minimum Wage in New York City. Prepared by the Fiscal Policy Institute for
the New York Immigration Coalition. Includes detailed tables on the immigrant
workforce in New York City. (PDF)
February 11, 2004.
The Impact of the 2004-2005 Executive Budget
on Needy New Yorkers: FPI's testimony at the Legislature's Joint Budget Hearing on Human
Services. Includes updated tables on TANF block grant spending. (PDF)
January 2004. FPI's main Briefing Book on the 2004-2005 Executive Budget:
Balancing New York State's 2004-2005 Budget in an
Economically Sensible Manner. Also,
Is Governor Pataki really using the Standard
& Poor's study as the basis for his proposed Sound Basic Education Plan?
(PDF)
January 21, 2004.
Economic Update: New York's Job Shift from
Higher-Paying to Lower-Paying Industries. (PDF) Also see press release.
January 20, 2004.
Raising the Minimum
Wage in New York: Helping Working Families and Improving the State's
Economy. (PDF, revised) FPI's main report on the minimum wage, a
comprehensive introduction to the issues surrounding the debate over
increasing New York State's minimum wage. Also see
January 11 press release.
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