On Monday, New York state lawmakers and advocates will join together at the Capitol to announce that the newly minted chair of the Assembly Labor Committee, Rochester’s Harry Bronson, will be the prime Assembly sponsor of legislation that would create a minimum wage parity between upstate and downstate New York.…
Newsletter for the Movement for Economic, Climate, and Racial Justice
A new report by Columbia University and Robin Hood shows that 1 in 4 children in NYC lived in poverty in 2022, the highest rate since 2015.…
Syracuse, N.Y. — One of every 10 workers at Amazon’s giant distribution center in Clay gets injured on the job, according to a report by a coalition of labor unions and community advocates.…
As students at New York City schools increasingly experience the impact of environmental injustice, climate activists are urging Mayor Eric Adams to electrify, ventilate, and retrofit hundreds of public school buildings in the city by 2030.…