City Finance: How Shall We Raise the Money?

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Katherine Strauss, past president of the Women's City Club, David Grossman, deputy Director of the Bureau of the Budget for New York City, and Dick Netzer, Dean of the Graduate School for Public Administration for New York University discuss city financing - including the notion of "home rule," NYC's unique position in funding welfare through the city budget, and the role commuters play in determining city budgets. Gloria Chapman of NYU moderates.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

WNYC archives id: 92518

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