New York City’s wealthiest pay a disproportionately large share of the city’s income taxes. But when property and sales taxes are figured in, the picture changes.
Some background on the “rental payment” that has the mayor and a councilman facing off.
The city’s library branches offer a dizzying array of services, from job-search help to literacy lessons to fiction writers’ circles. But limits on space and money could hamper the systems’ ability to reach potential.
They pay 46 percent of personal income taxes. That means they’re important to funding city services. Does it also mean they’re overburdened?
For Arvernetta Henry, the stakes in the budget talks are pretty simple. With a rent subsidy, she gets out of the shelter. Without it, she doesn’t.
A shortage of judges means some children and their families spend years in the system, exacerbating whatever problems brought them there in the first place.
When New Yorkers think about aging infrastructure, bridges, roads and pipes come to mind. But schools, hospitals, jails and other public buildings aren’t getting any younger, either.
Read key briefing material on the financial situation confronting the city’s research and branch libraries.
For six years, the lowest paid human-service workers in New York State have not had a cost of living adjustment, meaning their real wages have shrunk by nearly 12 percent. Is this the year Albany finally wakes up to that injustice?
A baselined budget doesn’t mean there aren’t big challenges for the city’s three systems.
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