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WBAI’s Morning Show
WBAI’s Morning Show — Our Campaigns Coordinator Andy Morrison talks to WBAI’s Morning Show about recent threats to worker and economic justice in New York and beyond.
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Next City: Why Some Workers Have to Pay to Get Paid
Next City — Lazy. Leeches. Moochers. Takers. These are just some of the false aspersions cast upon the poor, often by policymakers who are seeking to justify cuts to programs that benefit the poor, from public housing to food stamps. It’s not worth helping them, they say, because the poor don’t work or contribute anything…
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New York Times: Payroll Card Regulations in New York Are Struck Down
New York Times — A New York State effort to more tightly regulate the prepaid cards on which many employees receive their wages was struck down by a review board, which ruled that the state’s Labor Department exceeded its authority in imposing fee limits and other restrictions on the cards.
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El Diario: Las Tarjetas de Pago de Salarios Pendientes de una Apelación
El Diario — El próximo martes 7 de marzo estaba previsto que entrara en vigor una regulación del departamento de Trabajo del estado de Nueva York que imponía cambios en el uso de las tarjetas de débito para pagar salarios, imponía una serie de requisitos de información y consentimiento por parte del trabajador. La frase…
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Public News Service: Payroll Debit Cards Ruling Called Setback for Workers
Public News Service — Labor, consumer and good government groups are asking the state to appeal a decision throwing out rules for payroll debit cards.
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Manhattan Times: Pass on the Pipeline
Manhattan Times — To Cedric Goodhouse, water is sacred. “Water is life, not just for me, but for all of mankind,” remarked Goodhouse, the Hunkpapa Lakota Chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation, which is located near the construction site of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.
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MarketWatch: Undocumented College Applicants Face New Challenges Under Trump
MarketWatch — “I’m not surprised that the banks aren’t serving this population with student loans because they’re not serving this population with any kinds of loans in most cases,” said Deyanira Del Rio, the co-director of the New Economy Project, an organization advocating for low-income New Yorkers.
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Daily News, Op-Ed: Cage the Sharks Circling Consumers
Daily News — Last Friday, hours before signing an executive order that put the Dodd-Frank financial reform law on the chopping block, President Trump name-checked Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. “There’s nobody better to tell me about Dodd-Frank than Jamie,” he said. Translation: there’s no one better than Dimon to help gut Dodd-Frank.
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Capital & Main: Andrew Puzder’s House of Debit Cards
Capital & Main — Torrance Chambers has been calling Andy Puzder for weeks to talk to him about a problem with his paycheck from the Hardee’s restaurant where he works in Birmingham, Alabama. Ordinarily, Chambers wouldn’t bother the CEO of the fast-food chain’s parent company, CKE, Inc., but he claims his shift leader, store manager…
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City Limits: Backers of Community Land Trusts Seek to Broaden Support
City Limits — The community land trust movement is gaining momentum across the city, in part buoyed by the de Blasio administration’s announcement last month that it will consider proposals from community land trusts groups to develop public parcels in several boroughs.
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Next City: NYC Opens Door Wide to Community Land Trusts
Next City — Second-generation NYC resident Rosa Custodio was born at Metropolitan Hospital Center, on First Avenue in East Harlem. Growing up on East 103rd Street, Custodio and her sisters sometimes slept out on the fire escape on hot summer weekends, blankets and pillows and all. They weren’t the only ones.
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WNYC: Obama Saved New York by Saving Wall Street. But.
WNYC — Barack Obama took office on January 20th, 2009, amid the worst recession in decades. Months earlier, stone-faced men and women emerged from Lehman Brothers headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, carrying the remains of their jobs in cardboard boxes. Within a matter of months, Lehman Brothers became the nation’s largest ever corporate bankruptcy, insurer AIG…