GOVERNOR PATERSON'S BUDGET AND ITS IMPACTS ON OUR CONSTITUENCY

GOVERNOR PATERSON'S BUDGET AND ITS IMPACTS ON OUR CONSTITUENCY

GOVERNOR PATERSON'S BUDGET AND ITS IMPACTS ON OUR CONSTITUENCY

Introduction

Just over one week before, the Public Policy and Education Fund (PPEF) issued its 2010 “Race Matters” report that comprehensive the influence of the 2010-11 Executive Budget on persons of hue and immigrants. This follow-up report revisions the wellbeing care part of the Race Matters report by supplementing a initial investigation of the allowance suggestions made by the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate, and matching them to the Executive Budget (Abbott 2010 24).

 

Discussion

Our “Race Matters” report started by saying that: “While numerous New Yorkers of all rushes relish large informative, expert and communal achievement, the most of persons of hue in the Empire State stay perilously stuck in the shaded of the American dream. Although both the territory and state are directed by carried out persons of hue, the general status of persons of hue in New York is causing anguish, and the present nationwide financial urgent position and slashes in government programs only assist to farther damage our communities.” And, after a reconsider of several alarming statistics in the localities of paid work, salaries and foreclosures, we preceded that:

These details highlight that when we analyze the state allowance, we can't just gaze at the influence on New Yorkers as a whole. A full image should address to what span the allowance decreases the influence on persons of hue of the financial downtown (Hanno 2003 46). From that viewpoint, our gaze at the programs boasted in this report concludes that while some suggestions in the Executive Budget have a affirmative influence, on balance, the allowance would have a disproportionately contradictory influence on groups of color.

Unfortunately, while the Assembly and Senate both made restricted restorations of the suggested wellbeing care slashes in the Executive Budget, we should come to a alike deduction about the legislative wellbeing care allowance plans. On balance, like the Executive Budget suggestion, both the Assembly and Senate suggestions will have a disproportionately contradictory influence on the wellbeing care conclusions of groups of hue and immigrants.

As this investigation “goes to press,” state managers are carrying out grave discussions on a last allowance for Fiscal Year 2010-2011, which starts on April 1, 2010. (The Legislature has passed provisional legislation to hold the state running until a last allowance is passed.) We thus replicate the call in our initial report that income options be discovered to mitigate the slashes we identified (Agoglia 2009 17). The state should “seriously gaze at any reasonable options accessible … other than extending on the route of farther harming New Yorkers who are injuring the most in these hard financial times.”

 

Impact of the 2010-11 Executive Budget Proposal

 

Analysis of the Health Care Proposals of the Executive, Assembly and Senate

The rankings of each Executive Budget activity from our March 23, 2010 “Race Matters” report are shown underneath, pursued by a consideration of the ...