Unequal access to the internet and digital devices, or the “digital divide,” has been documented for decades. Today, the digital divide is preventing New Yorkers from climbing up the economic ladder.
Student loan debt has reached $1.7 trillion in the United States and is the second-largest form of consumer debt next to mortgages. In New York State, approximately 2.4 million people owe more than $98 billion in student debt, with one million of these borrowers living in New York City.
The last three years have been ones of momentous changes in our housing system, particularly for the more than two million people living in New York City’s 1,006,000 rent stabilized apartments.
CSS’s 2021 Unheard Third Survey—the longest running survey of low-income communities in the nation—finds that a sizeable majority of New York City residents support clearing conviction histories after seven years, notably across political affiliations, race/ethnicity and gender, and across incomes.
Our mass transit system can be our city’s great economic equalizer, an engine for upward mobility, and a key to jumpstarting an inclusive recovery. It is more important than ever to strengthen Fair Fares and ensure eligible New Yorkers are enrolled.
Half of low-income workers still haven’t heard about the city’s paid sick time law seven years after it took effect in 2014.