Report: Little oversight on N.Y.’s $7B in business incentives
By Joseph Spector ALBANY — New York spends $7 billion a year in incentives to entice and keep businesses, a report Wednesday found, but the state doesn’t adequately oversee how that money is spent. New...
View ArticleCoalition questions NYS economic development
New York state’s annual billion-dollar allocation to ignite economic development is under scrutiny by a coalition that includes public policy experts, government watchdogs and labor unions. ALIGN — The...
View ArticleReport: Little Oversight on NY’s $7B in Business Incentives
By Joseph Spector May 29, 2013 ALBANY, NY– New York spends $7 billion a year in incentives to lure and keep businesses, a report Wednesday found, but the state doesn’t adequately oversee how the money...
View ArticleCitibank, Chase & Bank of America: Pay us back!
New York gave away millions in subsidies to Wall Street banks to create jobs for NYers, but instead of creating jobs, they cut jobs. Demand that banks deliver the jobs they promised or pay us back!
View ArticleInsight: Cuomo’s Tax-Free NY
By Susan Arbetter June 7, 2013 Tax Free SUNY zones. Start a business, build a business, open a business on or near a state university campus and the governor is ready to offer the experience tax-free....
View ArticleBang For The Buck: Are the state’s Regional Economic Development Councils...
By Adam Janos In late December New York Medical College announced that it was starting the construction of iBio-NYSM, a biotechnology incubator on the college’s campus in Valhalla, N.Y. When it is...
View ArticleCorporate Welfare or Education?
By Lawrence Wittner June 13, 2013 “Who needs the Cayman Islands?” That’s how a May 22 New York Times article began as it described “Tax-Free NY,” a plan zealously promoted by New York State’s...
View ArticleLetter: Tax-free zones bad for taxpayers
Letter to Editor By Bill Ritchie June 20, 2013 The results of New York’s many “economic development” boondoggles are in. The Alliance for a Greater New York reports taxpayers are spending $7 billion on...
View ArticleWin Seen for Cuomo on Tax-Free Business Zones Proposal
Plan Would Open Up Campus Property for Private Businesses By Mara Gay June 20, 2013 ALBANY—Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s most straightforward victory in a messy legislative session here is expected to be on a...
View ArticlePulse of The People: Tax-Free NY won’t work
OpEd By Lawrence Wittner June 22, 2013 Should a public university be transformed into a corporate welfare project? That’s the key question surrounding “Tax-Free NY,” a new plan zealously promoted by...
View ArticleChristopher Williams: Stand Up Against Walmart’s Attack on Workers
We call on you to end management’s illegal terminations and disciplinary actions against workers who simply want to support their families and be treated with respect.
View ArticleCaring Across NYC Report Launch
Last year, we made history- we brought together over 500 care workers, people with disabilities, seniors, advocates, and elected officials to envision a world where everyone has access to the care they...
View ArticleBreaking Chains, Linking Struggles: From Bangladesh to NYC, Worker Solidarity
ALIGN brought together workers from Walmart’s supply chain to share strategies and educate New Yorkers about Walmart’s impact on—and responsibility to—millions of workers around the world. Last...
View ArticleCaring Across New York City
ALIGN made more than 1,000 care connections and developed local, state and national strategies to improve the lives of care workers, seniors and people with disabilities. ALIGN and the New York Care...
View ArticleKeeping the Focus on a Just Rebuilding After Sandy
Although much of the media focus on the communities most impacted by Superstorm Sandy has faded, ALIGN and our allies in the Alliance for a Just Rebuilding (AJR) are organizing to keep low-income...
View ArticleNew Report Calls for Good Jobs Not Giveaways
Our new research and policy ideas helped shape the debate and built momentum for improving New York’s job creation programs. ALIGN and the statewide Getting Our Money’s Worth coalition released a new...
View ArticleThe Capitol Pressroom: July 31, 2013
By Susan Arbetter July 31, 2013 ALIGN: Stands for Alliance for a Greater New York and it is a community and labor organization that is basically working for regular people like you and me. They issued...
View ArticleThe Majority Of New York’s Care Workers Earn Poverty Wages
By Bryce Covert August 6, 2013 Over 90 percent of domestic workers and 60 percent of home care workers in New York City earn less than $25,000 a year, according to a new report from the Alliance for a...
View ArticleReport Finds Home Health Care Workers Earning Poverty Wages
By Stephen Nessen August 06, 2013 The majority of the city’s home health care aides are earning poverty or near poverty wages, according to a new report from the health care advocacy coalition Alliance...
View ArticleNew York home care industry leader in the next decade
By Gao Mingde August 7, 2013 In New York, one in five adults is involved in caring for the elderly or the disabled. The current problem is that doing home care work, compensation is often small, and...
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