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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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • NY Groups Decry Decision to Block Pro-Worker Payroll Debit Card Rules

    The decision by the Industrial Board of Appeals to revoke the New York State Department of Labor’s groundbreaking rule on payroll debit cards is a clear overreach by the IBA and a major setback for New York’s workers.

  • Asleep at the Wheel: Why Does New York Let Car Insurance Companies Discriminate Against Drivers?

    Car insurance is unaffordable to 5.2 million New Yorkers, according to a report just issued by the U.S. Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office (FIO). But car insurance is not only expensive for New Yorkers – its pricing is also fundamentally discriminatory. That’s because New York allows car insurance companies to consider factors like a person’s education…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • NYC Seniors, Know Your Rights!

    Here at New Economy Project we continue to actively reach out to senior organizations throughout New York City to raise awareness of unjust financial practices that affect low-income immigrant seniors and seniors of color, in particular. Our presentations provide seniors with vital know-your-rights information and tools to fight back, and we encourage them to call…

  • 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…