News & Events
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NY1 Inside City Hall: Lawsuit Alleges NYC Transit Authority is Seizing Tax Refunds for Old Violations
Inside City Hall — Our Legal Director Susan Shin joins plaintiff David Evans and Katherine Deabler-Meadows from the National Center for Law and Economic Justice to discuss a lawsuit filed against the New York City Transit Authority, alleging the agency is enforcing judgments against riders for decades-old infractions and then seizing their tax refunds without their…
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The Nation: New York Fights – and Amazon Flees
The Nation — Amazon has ended its plan, less than three months after it was announced, to locate one of its two new headquarters in Long Island City—a deal had triggered fierce if entirely predictable opposition to throwing billions in public subsidies at the world’s richest man, bypassing public review processes, securing few promises for…
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Statement on Amazon’s HQ2 Withdrawal
Amazon’s decision to withdraw its proposed headquarters from Queens is a huge win for New Yorkers and New York communities, and should mark a dramatic turning point in New York’s approach to economic development.
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Daily News: Immigration Groups Say They Won’t Recommend IDNYC to Clients if Financial Smart Chip Plan Moves Forward
Daily News — Advocacy groups will no longer recommend that undocumented immigrants get a municipal I.D. card if the city goes forward with plans to add a financial services smart-chip to them, several said Monday.
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Statement from New York Groups on Nomination of Linda Lacewell to Lead NYS Department of Financial Services
The next DFS Superintendent must commit to taking bold action against financial companies that systematically exploit New Yorkers and extract wealth from New York communities. As the state’s chief regulator of the banking, insurance, check cashing, bail bond, and other financial industries, DFS has an obligation to advance racial, gender and economic justice. Given the…
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Let’s Be Real Episode 7: Organizing For Community Control, a Conversation with Linda Levy
When the last remaining bank branch on the Lower East Side closed its doors in 1986, local activists took matters into their own hands and organized to establish a non-profit financial cooperative, the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union.
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Statement by New York Groups re: Postal Banking
Our organizations support the concept of “postal banking,” as a potentially transformative form of public banking. As banks continue to redline New York neighborhoods — perpetuating poverty, inequality, and segregation — bold solutions like postal banking are clearly needed. Some recently-introduced proposals, however, would exacerbate our two-tiered financial system and promote debt as a solution…
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Daily News: IDNYC Payment Cards Coming Soon, Brought to You by New York’s Mastercard-Connected Deputy Mayor
Daily News — A new plan for putting banking smart chips in New York City IDs has advocates terrified that City Hall is inadvertently creating a backdoor for the feds to go after undocumented immigrants.
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2018 Campaign Highlights
Get up-to-date on our work and some of our biggest media features in this end-of-year roundup.
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El Diario: Adultos Mayores Hispanos Enfrentan una Vejez de Pobreza Sin Plan de Jubilación
El Diario — Un informe de AARP Nueva York, revela que casi tres de cada cinco latinos mayores de 50 años van camino a padecimientos económicos en su vejez y abuelos de la Gran Manzana narran su calvario.