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Why We March on May Day
This May Day, New Economy Project is proud to march with workers from across the city and globe for worker justice and against income inequality.
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Shareholder Action Update: Spotlight on JPMorgan Chase
We all know that Wall Street banks use their tremendous economic and political power to shape and defeat all sorts of laws and regulations. At New Economy Project, we think that a system that allows giant corporations to dominate our political process is fundamentally wrong and woefully undemocratic.
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Victory! NYC Bans Employment Credit Checks
“I felt like my choices for a better life were taken away when I found out that credit checks were blocking me from getting a job. This law will make sure that other people won’t have to go through what I experienced.” – Shelly Martin, Harlem resident & member of NYC Coalition to Stop Credit…
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Payday Lending Action Alert
Hey New Yorkers, don’t miss this Action Alert about big payday lending news from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Lots at stake for New York… Get involved with the campaign for a strong payday lending rule by following the steps in the video!
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New Yorkers to CFPB: We need a strong payday lending rule!
This morning, New Economy Project hand-delivered a letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Richard Cordray, calling on the CFPB to issue a strong payday lending rule that ends the payday loan debt trap once and for all.
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And Now for Some Good News
After years of hard-hitting advocacy by New Economy Project and allies, New York has implemented groundbreaking new debt collection rules, including some that go into effect today.
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Small Loans, Big Impact
In 2008, at the peak of the foreclosure crisis, New Economy Project launched a foreclosure prevention loan fund that over the next five years helped almost 400 low-income New Yorkers avert foreclosure and keep their homes.
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Video: New York, We Got a (Housing) Problem
Posted by Monica Garcia — Have you heard the growing buzz around Community Land Trusts (CLTs)? Across the country, and right here in NYC, groups are coming together to promote CLTs as a way to create truly affordable housing, fight gentrification and give people a voice in how their neighborhoods are shaped.
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Have We Learned Nothing?
Posted by Josh Zinner — Events in Congress last week provide a painful reminder that the Too Big To Fail banks and their allies in Congress are completely unbowed by the events leading up the global financial crisis. Now more powerful than ever, the big banks will stop at nothing to gut even modest reform.
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NYC, Repeat After Me: “Community Land Trusts”
Posted by Claudia Wilner — On November 17, affordable housing advocates and developers, community groups, and unions gathered at City Hall for a hearing on the Mayor’s plan to create or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next 10 years. New Economy Project testified at the hearing on behalf of NYC Community Land…