Reports
Race Matters: Impact of the 2009-10 Executive Budget Proposal
2009 – March 03 Race Matters: Impact of the 2009-10 Executive Budget Proposal (click to download PDF) The New York State Fiscal Year (FY) 2009-10 budget that will be enacted this spring will have a major impact on the future of our state’s economy, our communities, our schools, our health and our social safety net. [...]
The High Cost of “Pay-to-Play”: Health Insurance Contributions Drive Up Insurance Rates
2008 – September The High Cost of “Pay-to-Play”: Health Insurance Contributions Drive Up Insurance Rates (click to download PDF) Ever since the release of a 2004 report by the respected Brennan Center for Justice, it has become an accepted truism that New York has the “most dysfunctional” state legislature in the nation. We believe the [...]
Hospital Financial Assistance Programs: Are New York Hospitals Complying with New Requirements?
2008 – March Hospital Financial Assistance Programs: Are New York Hospitals Complying with New Requirements? (click to download PDF) In April of 2006, New York State enacted a groundbreaking law providing protections for uninsured and underinsured patients who face large hospital bills. The new law requires hospitals, as a condition of participation in the $847 [...]
Will Education Funding Promises be Broken?
2008 – February 14 Will Education Funding Promises be Broken? (click to download PDF) For fourteen years the Campaign for Fiscal Equity school-funding lawsuit faced a series of appeals and delays that stymied fair school funding reform. The New York State Court of Appeals ruled in the CFE case that the state was failing to [...]
The Value of After-School Programs
2008 – February 1 The Value of After-School Programs (click to download PDF) Studies are released every year documenting the impact and value of after-school programs. At a time when New York State is seeking to improve student achievement, the evidence that after-school programs can play a critical role in improving student outcomes is of [...]
The Public Cost of Privatized Medicare: How Medicare Advantage is hurting Medicare beneficiaries and other New York taxpayers
2007 – July The Public Cost of Privatized Medicare: How Medicare Advantage is hurting Medicare beneficiaries and other New York taxpayers (click to download PDF) The privatization of Medicare is costing U.S. taxpayers billions. Private Medicare plans (known as “Medicare Advantage” or “MA” plans) have grown rapidly in the past several years. Today, about 8.5 [...]
Capturing Promising Practices in Afterschool: A Scan of Promising Academic and Enrichment Activities
2007 – June 6 Capturing Promising Practices in Afterschool: A Scan of Promising Academic and Enrichment Activities (click to download PDF) Afterschool programs have been serving the developmental needs of children in America for well over a century. In the last ten years, however, we have seen overwhelming public support and funding for the expansion [...]
Sweeney For Sale: Top 10 Times John Sweeney Has Sold New Yorkers Out for Special Interest Money
2006 – October 24 Sweeney For Sale: Top 10 Times John Sweeney Has Sold New Yorkers Out for Special Interest Money (click to download PDF) Congressman Sweeney: Bought by the Special Interests #1. Big Pharmaceuticals #2. Insurance Industry #3. Polluters #4. Banking and Finance #5. Outsourcers #6. Big Tobacco #7. Big Oil #8. Clear Cutters [...]
Are We Investing In Our Children? A State-of-the-State Report on Children in New York
2006 – October 24 Are We Investing In Our Children? A State-of-the-State Report on Children in New York (click to download PDF) The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services, Education and Labor provide needed resources to ensure that New York’s children and families have the support necessary to allow them to thrive and be [...]
NY Congressman Jim Walsh: Darling of Agribusiness; Danger to Safe Foods
2006 – October 23 NY Congressman Jim Walsh: Darling of Agribusiness; Danger to Safe Foods (click to download PDF) With the E. coli contamination of spinach that sent almost 200 people to the hospital in the early fall of this year reminding Americans once again of the potential danger of contamination to our food supply, [...]
