An article about the increase in spending on the Runaway and Homeless Youth initiative and about the growing need for services for homless youths. The spending has doubled since 2005.
This New York City Independent Budget Office (IBO) fiscal brief addresses the issue of overcrowding in New York City schools, particularly in high schools. Included are various data tables and graphs on the issue, as well as recommendations on how to combat this issue to alleviate the pressure put on a small number of schools.
This Independent Budget Office Fiscal Brief addresses the analysis of former Mayor Bloomberg's executive budget for 2011. This report also gives and analyzes the past and current financial state of the City, and makes predictions for the future. Major areas of focus in this report are taxes, the impact on the economy, expenditures, and projections for future budgets.
This report provides IBO's review of the Mayor's Preliminary Budget for 2011 and Financial Plan through 2014. The report presents the IBO's own economic and revenue forecasts and examines some of the
Mayor's key budget proposals.
This report, issued by the Independent Budget Office, compares the per student public financial support for charter schools to the per student funding at traditional public schools. It was found that spending at each school varied based on their location.
IBO has examined Internal Revenue Service tax filer county to county migration data to track NYC in-migration and out-migration from 1989-2007 as well as moves within the city over that period.
With state policymakers now considering whether to allow companies to drill for natural gas in the Catskill/Delaware watershed, many environmentalists and other New Yorkers are concerned about
potential contamination of the water from chemicals used in drilling.
The city's fiscal outlook for 2011 and beyond may be less fraught than previously thought. The IBO has concentrated on updating its economic and tax revenue forecasts.