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New York Network publications

• Bridging the unemployment insurance gap in New York state

  • April 5, 2023
  • Immigration Research Initiative

  During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, New York State came closer than at any point in its history to having an unemployment insurance system that served the whole population. […]

• Expanding Inclusion in the Social Safety

  • April 5, 2023
  • Immigration Research Initiative
  • Elaine Waxman, Hamutal Bernstein, David Dyssegaard Kallick, Poonam Gupta, Paola Echave, Julio Salas, Luis Gallardo and Ashleigh-Ann Sutherland

  Response to the COVID-19 pandemic and recession spurred a wave of policy innovation around the country. The pandemic revealed weak spots in our social safety net, and governments scrambled to […]

• Using Local and Economically-Targeted Hire to Promote Good Jobs through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act

  • October 7, 2022
  • Michael Lawliss, Lew Finfer, and Jennifer Sherer

  The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), also known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), was signed into law on November 15, 2021. This federal legislation will bring $1.2 trillion […]

  Federal funds for state and local governments Infrastructure Worker Power Project

• Immigrants’ Experience with Medicaid Enrollment: Challenges and Recommendations

  • March 30, 2022
  • Immigration Research Initiative

  Medicaid enrollment can be a daunting process for many people—both U.S.-born New Yorkers and those who are foreign-born. It is even more challenging for those that don’t speak English, don’t […]

  Healthcare Immigration

• Domestic Workers are Essential Workers: By the Numbers in New York

  • April 12, 2021
  • Fiscal Policy Institute
  • Shamier Settle

  Throughout the coronavirus crisis, domestic workers have been placed under double pressure. Already underpaid, many domestic workers have lost their jobs, or lost hours on the job, putting them under […]

  Care Economy COVID19

• Excluded Worker Fund: Aid to Undocumented Workers, Economic Boost Across New York State

  • April 7, 2021
  • Fiscal Policy Institute
  • David Dyssegaard Kallick

  THE NEW YORK STATE EXCLUDED WORKER FUND at last provides a meaningful level of assistance to undocumented workers who have been excluded from major federal pandemic assistance. The $2.1 billion […]

  Immigration Unemployment Insurance

• Funding a Complete Count in 2020: What Community Groups Need

  • October 30, 2018
  • Fiscal Policy Institute
  • David Dyssegaard Kallick, and Shamier Settle

  The Fiscal Policy Institute details the resources community-based groups will require to maximize participation in the 2020 Census among “hard to count” residents across New York State. FPI proposes that […]

  Immigration

• Refugees as Employees: Good Retention, Strong Recruitment

  • May 22, 2018
  • Fiscal Policy Institute
  • David Dyssegaard Kallick, Cyierra Roldan

  Employers that hire refugees see positive outcomes for their businesses, according to a report released today by the Fiscal Policy Institute and the Tent Partnership for Refugees. The study, based […]

  Economic Development Immigration

• New York State Economic and Fiscal Outlook FY 2019

  • February 15, 2018
  • Ron Deutsch, David Dyssegaard Kallick, Jonas Shaende, Cyierra Roldan, Shamier Settle, Melissa Krug, Brent Kramer, and Xiao Cheng

  The Trump Administration’s tax law, looming federal budget cuts, multi-billion-dollar state budget deficits, glaring unmet human and physical infrastructure needs throughout the state…this year’s New York State budget negotiations are […]

  Budges and Taxes Care Economy Economic Development Education Healthcare Immigration Wages Worker, Racial, and Gender Justice

• Dream Act Would Boost NY Economy and Tax Revenues: Revoking DACA Hurts Both

  • December 20, 2017
  • Fiscal Policy Institute
  • David Dyssegaard Kallick, and Cyierra Roldan

  On September 5, the Trump Administration announced that it would end DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), the program for immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. […]

  Immigration