Fiscal Policy
Transportation in the 21st Century: Where Is New York Going, and How Will We Pay?
[PDF]A Public Policy Forum featuring Elliot G. Sander, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and Astrid C. Glynn, Commissioner, New York State Department of Transportation. March 11,2008
Property Taxes in New York: Is There A Cost to Doing Nothing?
[PDF]A presentation to the Governor’s Commission on Property Tax Relief by Robert B. Ward, deputy director of the Rockefeller Institute and special adviser to the Commission. February 12, 2008
Every Dollar Counts: A Budget Reform Proposal for New York
[PDF]A Public Policy Forum with Thomas P. DiNapoli, New York State Comptroller. November 29, 2007
The Budget Outlook for 2008
[PDF]A Public Policy Forum with Paul Francis, Director, New York State Division of the Budget, and Senior Advisor to the Governor. October 18, 2007
What the New Governor Will Face: A Fiscal Outlook
[PDF]A Public Policy Forum with John F. Cape, Director, New York State Division of the Budget. November 1, 2006
Balancing Budget Powers in New York
[PDF]A distinguished group of experts debates whether the Court of Appeals decision on December 16, 2004, which called the governor the architect of the budget and the Legislature the critic, increased the budgeting power of the governor and further limited the role of the Legislature, and if so, how it will play out.
A Public Policy Forum with John M. Caher, Albany Bureau Chief, New York Law Journal; James McGuire, State Supreme Court Judge, Queens County; Abe Lackman, President, Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities; and Frank Mauro, Director of the Fiscal Policy Institute. March 23, 2005
Reforming the Budget Process: The Proposed Constitutional Amendment — Yea or Nay?
[PDF]Speakers — Michael Cooper, Albany Bureau Chief, The New York Times; Barbara Bartoletti, Legislative Director, League of Women Voters of New York State; David F. Shaffer, President, The Public Policy Institute of New York State and Corporate Secretary, The Business Council of New York State. July 2006
Journal of Governmental Finance and Public Policy
[PDF]The New York State Division of the Budget and the Rockefeller Institute published this journal on topics related to New York State financial, budgeting, economic, and public policy issues.
New York Taxes In Relation to Other States
[PDF]Large tax increases can have large economic effects, especially when not spread broadly. Spending can have economic benefits, too — but not necessarily at the same time (educating today’s fourth graders may yield economic benefits long after taxes to finance education are paid). And will there be mechanisms in place to ensure that benefits from the spending occur?
Donald J. Boyd, presented at the Citizens Budget Commission conference, "Can New York Get an 'A' in School Finance Reform?", Palisades, NY, December 3, 2004
