Category: Media Coverage
Manhattan Institute fellow Russell Sykes on how the Earned Income Tax Credit works and why he thinks it's preferable to minimum wage increases. Photo: Getty Images Read More
As school grapple with a property-tax cap for the first time, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the cap is working and making local governments and schools more accountable. Cuomo told reporters yesterday that the cap isn’t binding. If districts want to ex Read More
Our Founding Fathers carefully eliminated in American law every special legal privilege of the old aristocracies of Europe. They strongly favored instead equality under the law, later enshrined in the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause, which m Read More
Question: When is a 2 percent property tax cap not a true 2 percent property tax cap? Answer: When it is approved in New York. Voters should keep that in mind when they head to the polls in mid-May to decide the fate of school budgets. And stat Read More
March unemployment numbers, released this week, offered a reminder that these still are challenging times. While private-sector jobs here increased last month and now exceed the number before the Great Recession, the metro jobless rate rose to 8 perc Read More
Dutchess County schools are proposing tax levy increases at or below their maximum allowable tax levy in their upcoming budgets. To fall under the state's new property tax cap law, Spackenkill Union Free School District is proposing decreasing its Read More