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Date Published:: 2017-04-19
Description:: Using an annual sample of 770,000 personal income tax returns, IBO explored the distribution of income among New York City residents during the years 2006 through 2014.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Employment
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2016-11-15
Description:: The ways New Yorkers use their local public libraries has changed. Branch libraries in all three systems have become broader community resources rather than repositories of books and information.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Libraries
Report Type:: Newsletters / Other Serial Publications

Date Published:: 2015-12-30
Description:: Over the past 10 years, New York City’s overtime spending has increased from $928 million in 2006 to $1.659 billion in 2015, an increase of $731 million, or close to 80 percent (about 40 percent after accounting for inflation).
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Labor and Employment
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2015-08-25
Description:: In 2009, the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs concluded a multiyear initiative to reform the Cultural Development Fund, the primary source of city funding for hundreds of arts and cultural organizations throughout the five boroughs.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Culture and Budget and Finance
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2015-08-11
Description:: IBO’s review of New York City’s spending on antismoking programs finds that spending levels have varied widely in recent years—and that after trending downward the local adult smoking rate has been increasing.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Health and Budget and Finance
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2014-12-02
Description:: Over the years 2002-2012, about 60 percent of the more than 75,000 homeless families with children entering the city’s shelter system had either a building with rent regulated apartments (43 percent) or a New York City Housing Authority development (16 percent) listed as their last address.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Homeless Persons
Report Type:: Adjudications / Decisions

Date Published:: 2014-10-08
Description:: From June 2006 through June 2013, the number of New York City residents receiving food stamps (now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) increased by 71.1 percent, from 1.1 million to 1.9 million.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Poverty
Report Type:: Adjudications / Decisions

Date Published:: 2014-09-16
Description:: The surplus as reported in the city’s budget does not reflect all the uses of funds that could be counted as part of a year’s surplus.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Budget and Finance
Report Type:: Adjudications / Decisions

Date Published:: 2014-07-15
Description:: Preliminary data for fiscal year 2014 indicate the city received about $41 million in revenue from camera-generated redlight, bus-lane, and now speeding summonses, as well as $14 million in ticket revenue from traffic violations written up by police officers.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Budget and Finance
Report Type:: Other

Date Published:: 2014-07-10
Description:: In 2002, Mayor Bloomberg urged that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) take over the 82 express and local bus routes (most based in Queens) operated by seven private companies under franchise agreements that included city subsidies.
Agency:: Independent Budget Office, NYC (IBO)
Subject(s):: Transportation
Report Type:: Other

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