(Released June 1, 2006) The Institute for America’s Future (IAF) has issued a report on the amount that President Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security would cost a typical New York worker who retires in 2080, the planning horizon for Social Security. In this accompanying report, The Public Policy and Education Fund of New York (PPEF) calculates the amount that the Bush plan would cut Social Security for two typical Western New York residents: a 20-year old who is entering the workforce...
(Released May 19, 2003) New York families are less equipped to weather an economic slowdown than families in any other state, according to a new report released by Citizen Action of New York. The report found that New Yorkers have fewer savings and lower net worth than the residents of all other states.
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(Released December 12, 2002) A report by the Public Policy and Education Fund shows that the MTA has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on outside contracts to rehabilitate subway stations — and $289 million of the station rehab work is linked to companies that gave campaign contributions to Governor Pataki and the Republican Party.
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(Released October 2001) In 1999, Congress allowed large financial corporations – banks, brokerage firms and insurance companies – to merge when it passed the Financial Modernization Act, otherwise known as the Gramm-Leach- Bliley Act (GLBA). Throughout the debate on this legislation, consumer advocates worried that the law included too few protections to restrict corporate use of personal financial information.
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