Featured Work: Clean and Safe Ports

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The New York metropolitan area is home to the largest port system on the east coast. Unfortunately, one of our most important and prominent industries is also characterized by worker exploitation and pollution. Visit Project Page

Featured Work: Solidarity

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New York Jobs with Justice was formed and continues to be built on the principle of solidarity—“being there” for someone else’s struggle as well as your own. Visit Project Page

Featured Work: Civic Engagement

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Educating and mobilizing more voters in poor and low-income communities and communities of color is critical to building support for progressive solutions in New York City and State.  Visit Project Page

Featured Work: Good Food, Good Jobs

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Millions of New Yorkers live in “food deserts,” neighborhoods in which the absence of full-service supermarkets denies residents access both to affordable healthy food and to quality jobs with decent wages and benefits. Visit Project Page

Featured Work: Green Jobs

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We believe it is not only possible but urgently necessary to develop a 21st century economy that both protects our environment and creates good green jobs.  Visit Project Page

Action: Stop the Spread of Walmart Fever

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For almost a year, the Related Companies have reportedly been in negotiations with Walmart to lease the retailer space in East New York, Brooklyn to build its first of potentially more than a hundred stores in NYC. For almost a year, New Yorkers have tried to tell Related they don’t want Walmart to destroy existing small businesses and their neighborhoods. Unfortunately, we suspect they may have a case of Walmart Fever...

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Featured Resources

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This report examines the performance of Industrial Development Agencies, or IDAs, New York’s main job creation tool and finds that IDAs are not living up to their job creation promises.

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Featured Story

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Ruby Carrasquillo is a weatherization technician at CEC, a Queens-based nonprofit that brings weatherization to low-income homes and apartment buildings in the New York Metro Area. She is also a member of Local 10 of the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA), and she spends her days blowing cellulose insulation into walls, insulating pipes, weather-stripping doors or caulking windows.

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