immigrant financial justice
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Testimony Before the NYC Council’s Committee on Technology Regarding Oversight of “MyCity” Portal
New Economy Project respectfully submits the following testimony regarding the oversight of MyCity. Since 1995, New Economy Project has worked with community groups and low-income New Yorkers to combat systemic discrimination and racial wealth extraction in our financial system and economy; and to promote public banking, worker and financial cooperatives, community land trusts, and other…
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Bloomberg Law: Debt Collection Rule Could Leave Non-English Speakers Vulnerable
Bloomberg Law — Debt collectors can be downright mean when going after people who owe money, but this one appeared to have reached a new low—the caller threatened to get the debtor deported.
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The City: Debt Collectors Put Translations On Hold, Foiling Immigrants
The City — When a debt collector called Alba Ramirez, she had no idea who was on the other line or what the person wanted.
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Letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio on Proposal to Add Financial Technology to IDNYC Cards
The undersigned community, labor, immigrant, civil rights, legal services, and economic justice organizations write to express our united and unqualified opposition to the administration’s plan to add financial technology and a host of integrations to NYC’s municipal identification (IDNYC) cards, which are held by more than 1.2 million New Yorkers.
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Daily News: A Dangerous IDNYC Overhaul: Don’t Equip This Card with Financial Technology Chips
Daily News, op-ed by Carlos Menchaca, Betsy Plum, Natalia Aristizabal, and Deyanira Del Rio — As the first batch of New York City’s municipal ID cards nears expiration, Mayor de Blasio is pursuing a dangerous plan that would fundamentally change the program and put New Yorkers at needless and potentially serious risk.
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The City: City’s IDNYC Smart Card Chip Plan Slammed As Security Risk
The City — Pushback against adding a banking chip to new IDNYC cards intensified Thursday, with a demand from immigration, civil liberties and consumer groups to scrap the effort and introduction of a City Council bill to block it.
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Let’s Be Real Episode 9: Housing Justice for All
In this episode of Let’s Be Real, we speak with Dominga Payano, a tenant organizer with Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition. Dominga represented the organization in the statewide Housing Justice for All Campaign. In an interview recorded just weeks before the campaign won a landmark victory—with the Legislature’s enactment of some of the strongest…
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Letter to CFPB Director Kraninger, Explaining Why We Declined Her Invitation to a New York Meeting
A letter explaining our decision to decline an invitation to meet in New York City. Under normal circumstances, we would certainly meet with the head of an important agency, even if we disagreed with policies the agency was pursuing. But the current situation is anything but normal.
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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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Testimony Before the NYC Council Committee on Immigration, Regarding IDNYC Program Oversight
Testimony regarding the Mayoral administration’s dangerous proposed plan to partner with a financial technology or other financial services company to embed an EMV/contact and RFID/contactless chip in the next generation of IDNYC cards, to allow for broad integration with private and public services and systems.