We urge the NYC Council to pass Intros 431 and 408, expanding access to street vendor licenses, ensuring regulatory compliance, and establishing a Division of Street Vendor Assistance.
We urge the City Council and the City administration to adequately fund and staff the Commission at the levels necessary to ensure effective and efficient enforcement of city laws
Gaps in pay contribute to gaps in savings and wealth, making women and people of color disproportionately vulnerable to unexpected economic shocks and unable to save sufficiently for retirement
Two years since the the beginning of the pandemic and an economic recession that disproportionately impacted low-income Black and brown residents, Governor Hochul and the State Legislature last Friday announced a budget agreement that advances important investments.
Immigrants make up around 43 percent of the city’s four-million strong workforce. While they are employed in a wide range of industries, they comprise a majority of the frontline essential workers who continued to operate in-person throughout the pandemic.
As the MTA reviews the environmental benefits of congestion pricing, including its prospective effects on low-income communities and people of color, we have updated our 2017 analysis using more current 2015-2019 American Community Survey Five-Year data available from the Census Bureau.
For most of the past half century, workers’ rights and workplace protections have been sacrificed by corporations seeking to maximize their bottom lines. The result is ballooning inequality as corporate owners have been able to keep an increasing share of the fruits of workers’ productivity as profits, enriching themselves.
Street vendors are New York State’s smallest businesses, and they are an essential part of New York City’s cultural ecosystem and economy. Nearly 20,000 entrepreneurs, primarily immigrants, people of color, military veterans and women, are engaged in street vending, many existing as part of a shadow economy of workers unable to acquire necessary business licensing to legitimize their business.
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.