This week marks 10 years since the People’s Climate March, then the largest climate march in history. Hundreds of thousands of people, led by Indigenous and environmental justice groups most impacted by climate change, marched in the streets of New York City on the eve of the UN Climate Summit.…
For Tal Frieden, raising New York state’s minimum wage – and indexing it to inflation – is an essential component of a larger crusade against American capitalist inequity.…
According to a 2023 Cornell living wage study, roughly 19,000, or about 40%, of Tompkins County workers earn less than the living wage, with two of five women and three of five black workers in the county not receiving enough funds to account for sky-high food, travel, childcare and rent prices.…
On July 8, the Tompkins County Legislature’s Housing and Economic Development Committee voted unanimously to pass a resolution that could potentially increase the county’s minimum wage, inching it closer to the living wage, which is expected to spike again later this year. …
After what New Yorkers and environmental campaigners called a “betrayal” by Gov. Kathy Hochul earlier this week, the Democrat is now under pressure to sign the Climate Change Superfund Act, which state legislators finally passed early Saturday morning.…
