New Tool Reveals How Federal Fiscal Policy
Decisions Impact the People of New York City
Decisions Impact the People of New York City
NEW YORK – New York City human service providers, advocates and citizens have a new tool in their arsenals to stand up for low to middle-income New Yorkers. FPWA, an anti-poverty organization committed to securing economic equity and upward mobility for all New Yorkers, launched the FPWA Federal Funds Tracker today. Through interactive charts and stories, the tracker showcases the real impact federal grants have on NYC human service agencies and the New Yorkers they serve.
“FPWA is proud to introduce the Federal Funds Tracker, a tool born out of the growing concern from our network of 170 human services and faith-based organizations that changes at the federal level would impact their ability to support and serve their communities,” said FPWA CEO and Executive Director, Jennifer Jones Austin. “This innovative, user-friendly tool brings knowledge – and with it power – into the hands of advocates, policymakers, and concerned citizens to effect change.”
FPWA developed the Federal Funds Tracker in response to requests from member organizations, who have collectively been fighting for the city’s low-income residents for over a century. It fosters greater awareness of and engagement in the federal budget process in three ways: by demystifying, organizing, and analyzing federal budget data in understandable and interactive visualizations; by supporting the data with stories of New Yorkers whose quality of lives were improved by federal support; and by providing accessible, up-to-date, and actionable information on the impact of federal budget proposals on the City’s human services budget and sector.
“Heights & Hills serves more than 4,000 older Brooklynites, and their families to age successfully in their communities,” said Executive Director Judy Willig. “To serve our communities, we rely on a range of federal grants, most of which have fallen over time or have been on the chopping block altogether. We look forward to utilizing FPWA’s Federal Funds Tracker to complement our efforts to strengthen these federal funding streams.”
In developing the tracker, FPWA found that all federal grants to New York City have eroded by nearly $2 billion since FY 2010 after adjusting for inflation, impacting a wide range of services from education to transportation to environmental protection. By tracking grants for individual agencies, including the Administration of Children’s Services, the Department of Social Services, the Department of Youth and Community Development, and the Department for the Aging, FPWA shines a light on the nearly $75 million lost in funding to, among others, effective poverty fighting tools, programs to support the needs of our children and older adults, and grants to assist New Yorkers who cannot meet their basic needs.
“The FPWA Federal Funds Tracker is a much needed and important tool, showing if New York City is actually getting the money we deserve. I grew up in public housing so I understand how important it is to make sure we know where our federal dollars are, and I am so grateful to FPWA for launching this tracker today so we can make sure we get those federal grants toward human services,” said New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson.
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Source: Mercury
“FPWA is proud to introduce the Federal Funds Tracker, a tool born out of the growing concern from our network of 170 human services and faith-based organizations that changes at the federal level would impact their ability to support and serve their communities,” said FPWA CEO and Executive Director, Jennifer Jones Austin. “This innovative, user-friendly tool brings knowledge – and with it power – into the hands of advocates, policymakers, and concerned citizens to effect change.”
FPWA developed the Federal Funds Tracker in response to requests from member organizations, who have collectively been fighting for the city’s low-income residents for over a century. It fosters greater awareness of and engagement in the federal budget process in three ways: by demystifying, organizing, and analyzing federal budget data in understandable and interactive visualizations; by supporting the data with stories of New Yorkers whose quality of lives were improved by federal support; and by providing accessible, up-to-date, and actionable information on the impact of federal budget proposals on the City’s human services budget and sector.
“Heights & Hills serves more than 4,000 older Brooklynites, and their families to age successfully in their communities,” said Executive Director Judy Willig. “To serve our communities, we rely on a range of federal grants, most of which have fallen over time or have been on the chopping block altogether. We look forward to utilizing FPWA’s Federal Funds Tracker to complement our efforts to strengthen these federal funding streams.”
In developing the tracker, FPWA found that all federal grants to New York City have eroded by nearly $2 billion since FY 2010 after adjusting for inflation, impacting a wide range of services from education to transportation to environmental protection. By tracking grants for individual agencies, including the Administration of Children’s Services, the Department of Social Services, the Department of Youth and Community Development, and the Department for the Aging, FPWA shines a light on the nearly $75 million lost in funding to, among others, effective poverty fighting tools, programs to support the needs of our children and older adults, and grants to assist New Yorkers who cannot meet their basic needs.
“The FPWA Federal Funds Tracker is a much needed and important tool, showing if New York City is actually getting the money we deserve. I grew up in public housing so I understand how important it is to make sure we know where our federal dollars are, and I am so grateful to FPWA for launching this tracker today so we can make sure we get those federal grants toward human services,” said New York City Council Speaker Corey Johnson.
Click here for additional information.
Source: Mercury
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