News & Events
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Wall Street Journal: City Acts to Limit Credit Checks
Wall Street Journal — New York City is one step from enacting a ban that would prevent employers from using credit checks to screen job applicants, which the sponsor of the measure says is the most far-reaching in the nation.
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Rally & Press Event at City Hall
On April 16, 2015, we celebrated NYC’s action to end employment credit checks!
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Statement on NYC’s Action to End Unjust, Discriminatory Employment Credit Checks
New Economy Project is thrilled that New York City has taken action to end credit checks in employment, which unjustly block qualified New Yorkers, particularly people of color, from needed jobs. NYC Council is expected to pass this vital civil rights law on Thursday.
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City Limits: Advocates Hail NYC Credit-Check Ban as Strongest in the U.S.
City Limits — Intro. 261, sponsored by Brooklyn’s Brad Lander, would make it illegal for an employer, labor organization, employment agency or licensing agency to ask for or use “information contained in the consumer credit history of an applicant for employment” or make any decisions on hiring, firing, promoting or paying a person based on…
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NY1: Councilman, Expert Discuss Legislation to Ban Employment Credit Checks
NY1 — New Economy Project’s Sarah Ludwig joins Councilmember Brad Lander to discuss the city’s plan to pass legislation banning the discriminatory practice of employment credit checks.
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Daily News: City Will Ban Employers from Viewing Credit History of Prospective Workers
New York Daily News — The City Council is expected to pass a bill Thursday that will make it illegal for employers to check job-seekers’ credit history, officials told the Daily News.
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Majority Leader Morelle and Senator Gallivan to Sponsor A.G. Schneiderman’s Payroll Card Act
Assembly Majority Leader Morelle and Senator Gallivan, Press Release — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced that Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Morelle and Senator Patrick Gallivan will sponsor the Attorney General’s program bill regulating the use of payroll cards to increase protections for workers, clarify ambiguities in the law, and ensure that payroll cards…
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Statement on CFPB Payday Lending Blueprint
Our organization has consistently urged the CFPB to set a high national bar for addressing predatory and exploitative payday lending. The CFPB’s blueprint indicates, however, that the agency is considering including glaring loopholes in its final payday lending rule, which would allow payday lenders continued latitude to make unaffordable high-cost loans. This approach is simply…
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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.