…to balance a multi-billion dollar state budget hole while also keeping essential safety net programs, by raising revenue from our wealthiest top 1%. I will fight for Suffolk families, small…
…telling their personal stories about why rent should be canceled for those struggling during the coronavirus pandemic. Vincia Barber, a Brooklyn resident and former childcare worker was one of the…
…the private community hospitals serving low-income neighborhoods, which the State designates as “safety net” hospitals. Finally, there are the five large, private, and well-financed citywide hospital networks. The system’s inequities…
…in training, employed and unemployed, men and women and certainly the rainbow of working families. Learning from the two unfair bailouts of the housing/financial crises over the past 20 years,…
…“The COVID-19 pandemic is putting tremendous strain on New York City’s workforce and vulnerable communities, leaving many families uncertain about their ability to pay rent or even put food on…
…its unemployment, healthcare, and other safety-net programs to cover independent contractors. The NYC Comptroller has recommended that basic safety net protections must extend to New Yorkers regardless of immigration status,…
…employed,” along with “protections for workers and their collective bargaining agreement during any bankruptcy after a bailout.” “The no-strings-attached corporate windfall proposed by the Senate is worse than the Bank…
…in and tourists’ travel curtailed by the coronavirus epidemic, taxi drivers’ incomes have collapsed, from yellow-cab owners to Uber and Lyft drivers. And as drivers are generally considered independent contractors,…
…aren’t a bad idea, Taylor said—“we support getting cash in people’s hands”—but wouldn’t be enough. The federal government could help workers more, he went on, by subsidizing employer-based health plans,…
…that focuses on risk management and commercial insurance. The report was based on research conducted by Lockton companies, a global risk management firm. The data was based on denials that…
